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Year 6 Week 11 – Homework

Choose a fraction and a number to make a multiplication. Solve it, then repeat this four times so you have done five different multiplications.

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Now use the same cards to choose a fraction and a number to make a division. Make and solve five divisions.

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Multiplying and dividing fractions

What do you notice?

11 What happens when you multiply a fraction by a whole number? What happens when you divide a fraction by a whole number?

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Try and describe what happens to the numerator and the denominator.

Don’t forget to try to convert improper fractions to mixed numbers!

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Year 6 Week 11 – Homework

12 A map scale reads 1 cm = 2 km. Ali measures that it is 6 centimetres from his house to the roller disco. How many kilometres is it?

13 On the same map, Dan measures 8¹₂ cm from his house to the cinema. How many kilometres is it?

14 Draw a treasure map where 1¹₂ miles = 10 mm. The treasure should be 4¹₂ miles from the sea and 9 miles from the castle.

Treasure map

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