Our Pancake fractions! Tuesday 21.2.12
Equipment
A plate
Clean hands
A knife
A pancake
Lemon and sugar optional!
First we were given a whole pancake between two children.
Equipment
A plate
Clean hands
A knife
A pancake
Lemon and sugar optional!
First we were given a whole pancake between two children.
Then we cut it into quarters by cutting each half into another half and it looked like this:
Then we cut it into quarters by cutting each half into another half and it looked like this:
There are 4 quarters in one whole.
If we ate ¼ of the pancake we would have ¾ left.
If we ate 2/4 of the pancake this would be equal to ½.
We then cut each ¼ into half to make 8/8 s. 8/8 is equal to 1 whole pancake. The pancakes looked like this:
If we ate ¼ of the pancake we would have ¾ left.
If we ate 2/4 of the pancake this would be equal to ½.
We then cut each ¼ into half to make 8/8 s. 8/8 is equal to 1 whole pancake. The pancakes looked like this:
Miss Gallagher then told us to put sugar and lemon on our pancake if we wanted to.
Miss Gallagher then asked us to each eat 1/8 of the pancake and count how many 8ths were left. If we ate 2/8 of the pancake (this was equal to ¼) there will be 6/8 left.
We then ate 1/8 of the pancake between two of us. This left us with 5/8 – we have eaten 3/8.
Next we cut the 5/8 we had left in half again and we had 10/16. This tells us that 5/8 = 10/16.
Then Miss Gallagher said that we had worked really well and could eat the rest of the pancakes!
And that was our pancake fractions!
“I have learnt that if you cut an 8th in half it
will make a 16th and if you cut a 16th in half
again it will make a 32th.”
(Ellis)
We then ate 1/8 of the pancake between two of us. This left us with 5/8 – we have eaten 3/8.
Next we cut the 5/8 we had left in half again and we had 10/16. This tells us that 5/8 = 10/16.
Then Miss Gallagher said that we had worked really well and could eat the rest of the pancakes!
And that was our pancake fractions!
“I have learnt that if you cut an 8th in half it
will make a 16th and if you cut a 16th in half
again it will make a 32th.”
(Ellis)
The Romans
The field at Dunkirk was transformed into a Roman Gladiatorial arena. We wore our best home made togas and fought for honour in mock combat. We cooked food on an open fire and made Roman money bags.
We had a great day and at the end all the Gladiators paraded in a chariot to the acclaim of the crowd!
We had a great day and at the end all the Gladiators paraded in a chariot to the acclaim of the crowd!
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