Fractions Unit | Year Two | Differentiated Lessons, Slides, Activities & Games

Looking for effective and engaging ‘Fractions: Halves, Quarters and Eighths’ lessons that tick all your boxes? Look no further!

Teaching is hard enough, without spending hours creating differentiated lesson plans and activities. Not to mention the time spent planning:

• Early finisher tasks.
• Assessment points and observations.
• Games to consolidate previous skills.

With this Year Two Australian Curriculum Aligned ‘Fractions: Halves, Quarters and Eighths’ unit, everything is done for you.

What’s included?

80+ Pages of Lesson Plans and Activities

• 8 Sequenced lesson plans (or pick and choose!).
• Learning intentions.
• Resource list.
• Warm-ups, lesson steps and conclusion.
• Suggested early finisher printable game or ‘low-prep’ slide option.
• 80 pages of activities with three levels of differentiation.
• Observation points and optional assessment ‘check-in’ strips throughout.

150+ PowerPoint Slides

• Broken into 8 lessons.
• Includes all lesson content, including warm-ups, strategy explanations, practise slides and conclusions.
• Early finisher ‘low-prep game’ suggestions.
• Hyperlinked contents.
• Editable features like numerals and moveable math manipulatives.
• Editable slide templates (if you want to add in your own content).

6 Printable Games

• 65 pages.
• Printable covers with simplified instructions and resource list.
• Games aligned to lesson content.
• All games use common resources (like dice). Any spinners are provided in a printable format.

Strategies covered:

• Identifying the ‘whole’.
• Identifying halves of a shape, object and collection.
• Identifying quarters of a shape, object and collection.
• Identifying eighths of a shape, object and collection.
• Exploring how halves, quarters and eighths relate to each other.

Note: This unit is designed as an introduction to fractions. While the level 3 activities touch on fractions represented as a numerator/denominator, the majority of the lessons use wording like halves, quarters and eighths.

This resource is perfect for teachers who…

• Would love a roadmap for delivering quality maths instruction.
• Are changing year levels and don’t know where to start.
• Never want to worry about writing or missing relief notes!
• …want to cater for multiple needs in their class!

Important:

*Editable features must be edited out of slideshow mode (easy steps included).

This resource is created by an Australian educator, so is based around the Australian Curriculum (V.9). However, thousands of educators all over the world have found my resources to be easily adaptable to their classrooms!