The activity•Ask your students to arrange themselves into a rectangle. •Ask som

The activity•Ask your students to arrange themselves into a rectangle. •Ask som

The activity•Ask your students to arrange themselves into a rectangle. •Ask someone else to divide the group into half.•Reform the rectangle, then ask another student to divide the group in half in a different way. •Ask the students what is the same and what is different about the new half of the group.•Now ask another student to divide the eight students into quarters (fourths). Again ask whether there is a different way to do this division, and what is the same and what is different about the new way of dividing into quarters. •Now change the number of students and go through the process above again. It may be that dividing into quarters is difficult but depending on the chosen number, continue asking for1/2, 1/4, 1/3 and so on, until a fraction that cannot be done is reached. Ask the students why you cannot find that fraction of these students. Dividing one student into bits is not allowed! •Ask the students to work in groups of 18. You could appoint a leader in each group to note down ideas if the class does not split evenly into groups of 18. Ask them to work out all the fractions they can divide 18 students into. the problems I need answer is : The problem is what is ½ of 8
The problem is what is 1/3 of 8
The problem is what is ¼ 0f 8 The problem is what is ¼ 0f 9 The problem is what is 1/3 of 9 The problem is what is ¼ of 9 What is ½ , 1/3, ¼ of 18
Ask them to work out all the fractions they can divide 18 students into? What is this answer?