L1 Recognise and Find One Quarter

Working Without Worksheets – Year 2 Fractions: Finding One Quarter Introduce your Year 2 pupils to fractions with this Working Without Worksheets lesson on finding one quarter. Building on prior knowledge of halves, children learn how to recognise and find quarters of shapes, lengths, and quantities through practical, hands-on activities. The lesson begins with a starter activity: Recap multiplication, division, and addition and subtraction to activate prior knowledge. Revisit halves using animated slides, showing halves of shapes, objects, lengths, and quantities. Emphasise that a half means 2 equal parts of a whole (e.g. half of 6 is 3 ). Children practise completing the sentence: “Half of ___ is ___” on whiteboards. In the main input, children are introduced to fractions as notation: Show that one half can be written as 1/2 and explain what the numerator and denominator mean. Move on to quarters and ask if anyone can write 1/4. Show shapes divided into 4 equal parts and link this to the idea of a quarter. Work through a quantity example: “A chocolate bar has 12 pieces. One quarter is 3.” Explain that a quarter can also be thought of as half of a half. Practise completing sentences: “1/4 of ___ is ___.” For the independent activities, children work in two groups and complete both tasks, swapping halfway through: Paper Strip Task – find a quarter of a strip of paper by folding into 4 equal parts or, for greater challenge, measuring using a ruler. Stick the strip into maths books, showing how a quarter was found. Counter Pots Task – each pot contains a number of counters that can be divided equally into 4 groups. Children share the counters, recording their findings as: “1/4 of ___ is ___.” The plenary brings children back together: Share strategies for finding quarters. Discuss how quarters link to halves and why equal groups are important. Reinforce fraction notation and language. What’s Included in the Pack? ✔ Full teacher planning with objectives, vocabul