WombatMaths
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Number · Fractions

Counting by fractions and mixed numerals

Count by halves, quarters and thirds including mixed numerals, and locate them on a number line.

Victorian Curriculum VC2M4N04 · 22 questions · 22 step-by-step · 4 clips

How we teach it

This is what sits under the answer sheets in the app — the same cards, clips and lessons your child sees after a question.

The concept card

One picture that says the whole idea. Every answer sheet on this topic points back to its card.

RememberMixed numeralsA mixed numeral is a whole number and a fraction.Join 10 cubes and call it 1 whole.=1Pick up 2 more cubes. That is another 2 tenths.=Together: 1 whole and 2 tenths.=

Try the interactive lesson: Mixed numerals — build it with cubes

Add cubes to a tray: a full row is one whole, the cubes left over are the fraction. Build one and two tenths, seven quarters, two and a quarter — and see why 7/4 is 1 3/4.

Open the lesson on its own page

A narrated clip

Short, spoken, and about one question. Press play — it uses your device's own voice.

Open the lesson on its own page

One question, as your child sees it

And the answer sheet that follows a second wrong try: what we know, what we need, the steps, a check, the answer.

Count on by halves: , 1, , 2, ... What comes next? (Write it as a mixed numeral, e.g. 2 1/2.)

Your child types the answer on a number pad.

First hint: You are adding one half each time.

The answer sheet

We know
Counting on by halves: , 1, , 2, …
We need
The next number, as a mixed numeral.

each step adds one half.

one half more than 2 is two and a half.

as a mixed numeral: .

The rule

The whole number, then the half beside it — like the card's . Two halves make the next whole, 3.

RememberMixed numeralsA mixed numeral is a whole number and a fraction.Join 10 cubes and call it 1 whole.=1Pick up 2 more cubes. That is another 2 tenths.=Together: 1 whole and 2 tenths.=
Check

Half a step back from is 2, the number before it. ✓

Answer

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