Fortunately, the targets for children to achieve in Year 1 are sensible:

• recognise, find and name a half as one of two equal parts of an object, shape or quantity.
• recognise, find and name a quarter as one of four equal parts of an object, shape or quantity.

It is important to get off to a good start with fractions to give children confidence when dealing with harder fractions later in primary school. Children need to see fractions in two ways...

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