Simplify and Match: Equivalent Fractions
Reduce ten fractions to simplest form and match them with the lettered answer choices.
- Year groups
- Years 4–6 (Key Stage 2)
- Pages
- 1
- File type
- Subject
- Fractions, Maths
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- England expectations
- Official curriculum expectation · Fractions (including decimals and percentages)
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About this resource
Reducing fractions is a key concept for students to understand in order to work with fractions correctly. This worksheet provides valuable practice for students to divide the numerator and denominator to put a fraction in lowest terms and then match common fractions. This is a great resource for teachers who want to give their students extra practice with fractions.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Recognise equivalent fractions
- Identify a fraction written in reduced form
Teaching tips
- Ask learners to mark a common factor beside selected pairs
- Have pupils verify matches by comparing numerator and denominator changes.
Skills covered
- Equivalent-value reasoning — divide numerator and denominator by a shared factor to match the reduced choice.
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National Curriculum in England
National Curriculum in England expectations
England expectations
England expectations
- Official curriculum expectation · Fractions (including decimals and percentages) — use common factors to simplify fractions; use common multiples to express fractions in the same denomination
Core concepts
Core concepts
- Equivalent fractions
- Simplest form
- Common factors
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