A key task in Year 5 is for children to have as much practice as possible counting up and down in a given fraction. An important part of this is to determine by how much the sequence is increasing or decreasing. This is easy with whole numbers but needs a little more thought when working with mixed numbers. Visual representations can help, but our latest pages concentrate on working out what fraction each step is and what the next 4 fractions will be. One set concentrates on counting up and the other on counting down.Go to Year 5 Fractions