VC2M4N04

count by multiples of quarters, halves and thirds, including mixed numerals; locate and represent these fractions as numbers on number lines

• cutting objects such as oranges or sandwiches into quarters and counting by quarters to find the total number, and saying the counting sequence ‘one-quarter, two-quarters, three-quarters, four-quarters or one-whole, five-quarters or one-and-one-quarter, six-quarters or one-and-two-quarters … eight quarters or two-wholes ...’
• subdividing the sections between whole numbers on parallel number lines so that one shows halves, another shows quarters and one other shows thirds; and counting the fractions by jumping along the number lines, and noticing when the count is at the same position on the parallel lines
• converting mixed numerals into improper fractions and vice versa, and representing mixed numerals on a number line
• using a number line to represent and count in tenths, recognising that 10 tenths is equivalent to one