All concepts combined

This page mixes questions from all four parts of P3 Fractions: equivalent fractions, simplest form, comparing and ordering unlike fractions, and adding and subtracting related fractions. Because no question says which skill it needs, your child has to read it, decide what is being asked and then choose the method. Choosing the method is part of the work.

• Recognise from the wording whether a question wants an equivalent fraction, a simplest form, a comparison, or a sum or difference.
• Use equivalent fractions as the shared tool: renaming to equal-sized parts is the first step in comparing, adding and subtracting.
• Compare and order unlike fractions with denominators up to 12, in the direction the question asks.
• Add and subtract two related fractions within one whole, then simplify the answer.
• Work out the fraction that is left, not coloured or not used, before doing anything else with it.

When the question asks for a sum, a difference or a part left, your child's answer stays between 0 and 1. When it asks for a missing number in an equivalent fraction, the numerator and denominator must both grow, or both shrink, by the same multiple, so a bigger denominator comes with a bigger numerator.

This set mixes the chapter's question types: equivalent fractions, simplest form, comparing and ordering, and adding and subtracting related fractions. The Basic questions use one skill each, and the Intermediate questions begin to link them, such as adding and then simplifying. The Challenge questions require your child to find a common denominator and keep track of several steps. If a fractions question in this set stalls, watch its solution film and try again later from Revision.

How is mixed practice different from the fractions subtopic pages? On each subtopic page, your child knows which skill a question needs. Here the four skills are shuffled, so your child has to decide first. That decision is part of using fractions, and it shows whether each method is understood or only followed.

What should my P3 child know before trying mixed fractions questions? It helps to have watched the four lessons in this chapter: equivalent fractions, simplest form, comparing unlike fractions and adding related fractions. Each builds on the one before, and renaming to equal-sized parts runs through all four.

Which fractions topics are in the Primary 3 syllabus? The MOE syllabus lists equivalent fractions, simplest form, comparing and ordering unlike fractions with denominators up to 12, writing an equivalent fraction from a given numerator or denominator, and adding and subtracting two related fractions within one whole. This mixed set draws on all of them.