This document provides a summary and collection of online resources for teaching fractions. It begins by noting the importance of visual representations for understanding fractions. The remainder of the document provides brief descriptions and hyperlinks to fraction resources available on various websites, including visual diagrams, practice problems, lesson plans, and interactive activities. The resources are organized for teaching fractions at various levels, from key stage 3 through key stage 4.

1. Fractions Resources
Colleen Young
Mathematics, Learning &
Technology

2. Diagrams
In the study of fractions
diagrams really help, so
that’s where this resource
collection starts, a couple of
sites whose strength is in
their visual representations.

3. On the following slides,
images and/or text provide
hyperlinks to the resources

11. Note the comprehensive index.
The About page has clear information for teachers on using the site.

12. KS3 to KS4
From OCR’s Check in Tests,
try Fractions.
Full details of the Check in
tests can be found in the
Teachers’ Guide. Each test
is of a similar format in
that Questions 1-5 cover
procedural calculations
(AO1), questions 6-8 require
the ability to reason and
communicate mathematically
(AO2) and questions 9-10
relate to problem solving
tasks (AO3).

13. KS3 to KS4
From AQA, Bridging the
Gap is for students who
have studied the current
(2007) Key Stage 3
Programme of Study and are
preparing for the
new Mathematics GCSE
specification.
These are excellent
resources for students age
11-14.

16. Don Steward
On Don Steward’s wonderful,
Median blog you will find
numerous problems to make
your students think.
Note the index on the right,
several categories are
available for fractions.
fraction addition (19)
fraction division (4)
fraction Egyptian (1)
fraction equivalence (6)
fraction multiplication (13)
fraction pictures (4)
fraction subtraction (7)
fractions (9)
fractions cancelling (1)
fractions comparing (1)
fractions mixed numbers (2)
fractions of (4)
fractions to decimals (6)

17. Teachit Maths
TeachIt Maths have a very
useful set of resources on
Fractions.
The collection
includes a good
variety of resource
types.
Note the filters to
Refine your search.

18. Teachit Maths

19. CIMT
CIMT as always can be
relied on to provide
examples.
As well as the main text in
the Year 7 book (unit 20 in
Book 7B) additional teacher
support is also provided.
Scroll down the Year 7 page
to the teacher reources for
book 7B for additional
activities for example.
Perhaps try activity 20.1 and
demonstrate multiplication
with Human Multiplication!

21. TES
Try the TES collection on
Fractions, Decimals and
percentages recommended by a
member of the TES Maths Panel.
Numerous resources are available on
TES for fractions. Dan Walkers
excellent PowerPoint on Problem
Solving includes four problems on
Fractions.