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Hi Jules, got you so far but how on earth do you work out the equivalent of 2/4 and 1/4 and so on.......thanks for your help,

ie...if you cut the same pie into 6 pieces, each half of the pie represents 3 x 1/3 so 3/3 is also equal to 1/2 & 2/4....

Or if you cut it into 8 pieces, each half will be 4 x 1/8 making 4/8 equal too.....

???

Thanks Christine, can't for the life of me work out, ie;if you take the two first figures: 2/4 and 1/4 how to work out the equivalent???

Blimey

I hope not or I'll have to stand in the corner again!!!! If you're out there Miss Chilcott - clear off!!!!

Found this n it makes sense seeing a diagram with it but obviously I cant draw the diagram....

Hope it makes sense to you....??

The best way to think about equivalent fractions is that they are fractions that have the same overall value. Equivalent fractions represent the same part of a whole. For example, if we cut a pie exactly down the middle, into two equally sized pieces, one piece is the same as one half of the pie. And if another pie (the same size) is cut into 4 equal pieces, then two pieces of that pie represent the same amount of pie that 1/2 did. So we can say that 1/2 is equivalent (or equal) to 2/4.

Thanks Mary, I am sure I didn't learn this at school, poor boy hasn't got a clue where to start and neither have I, hopefully a maths teacher will come along any time now...........lol

I can only state the obvioous the fractions across the top of the page are all equal to 1(2

Poor lad only 9 getting homework like that !!

Love Mary xx

Thanks Ann lol!

pass!!!!

Hi, I have googled and can't make any sense of it, right here goes, my son has come home with maths homework, he has a grid with these figures

across the top, running left to right: 2/4, 3/6, 4/8, 5/10, 6/12, 7/14, 8/16.

running down the left side of the page: 1/4, 3/4, 1/3, 2/3, 1/5, 1/6,1/8, 1/10, 1/20.

he has to fill in the columns with the equivalent fraction???? Does anyone understand this please?

He's only 9....I don't remember doing this at school many moons ago!

Thanks for any help at all??