Fractions Teaching Resources

Teaching fractions? Explore printable fractions worksheets, Google slides activities and more Australian V9 curriculum-aligned teaching resources for your primary maths lesson plans — all created by primary teachers for primary teachers like you!

Explore editable resources you can easily differentiate for individual learners to help students understand what a fraction is, how to add fractions and more!

This collection of curriculum-aligned printable and digital resources has been created just for teachers by the teachers on the Teach Starter team. That means each resource has undergone an in-depth review before publication to ensure it's ready for the classroom and your students!

New to teaching this section of the maths curriculum? Read on for a guide to definining fractions, dividing fractions and so much more from our teacher team!

What Are Fractions? A Kid-Friendly Definition

It may be basic, but we need to start somewhere. Here's a definition from our teacher team: Fractions are mathematical expressions that represent a part of a whole or a ratio of two quantities.

Fractions can be used to represent quantities that are not whole numbers, and they are an important part of arithmetic, algebra and other areas of maths that our students explore throughout their primary (and secondary) education.

Understanding numerators and denominators is an essential skill as students dive into adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions.

Next, let's explore the most common topics we cover when we're teaching fractions!

Proper Fractions vs. Improper Fractions

Teaching fractions involves teaching students a lot of new vocabulary! Two terms your maths students will need to know early on in your lessons are:

• Proper Fractions — This is a fraction where the numerator (the top part) is less than the denominator (the bottom part). A proper fraction represents a value that is between 0 and 1. For example, 1/2 is a proper fraction because the numerator (1) is less than the denominator (2).
• Improper Fractions – This is a fraction where the numerator is greater than or equal to the denominator. An improper fraction represents a value that is greater than or equal to 1. For example, 3/2 is an improper fraction because the numerator (3) is greater than the denominator (2).

What Is the Lowest Common Multiple? A Kid-Friendly Definition

Working on fractions with your upper years students? You may be tackling the lowest common multiple this school year. So let's talk about what that means.  The lowest common multiple is another important term to define before adding, subtracting or comparing fractions.

Sometimes called the LCM, the lowest common multiple of two or more numbers is the smallest positive integer that is divisible by all of the numbers.

In order to find the LCM of two or more numbers, you can teach students to use one of several methods, including:

• The prime factorisation method
• The listing method
• The division method