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Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1



Year 2 Oak Class at Twyford St Mary's have been learning about fractions and the teacher wrote,

We have had a go at the Fair Feast problem and here is our solution for you.
We used what we know about fractions, halving numbers and division to find out what would happen if 4 people shared this picnic.
If we share between four people each person would get 1 slice of pizza or 1/4 of the pizza. They would get 1 muffin each because there are 4 and that shares easily by 4 people. They could also have two halves of a muffin, because that is the same as one whole. For the tomatoes, we used division and said that 8 divided by 4 equals 2, so they each get 2. The apple would be equally cut into 4 slices or quarters. Each person would have 1 quarter as that is 1 out of 4. If the carton was 200ml, each person would get 100ml because half of 200 is 100. Two people would share one carton.
Now we challenge other children to try and find out if the picnic can be shared by 8, 10, 12 or 20 people!

Anna and Eden from West Hill Primary wrote:








2 muffins each because half of 4 is 2.

1 juice each because half of 2 is 1.


