The work on fractions in Year 6 is about as hard as it gets in primary maths. Once again, understanding equivalence is the key to success with fractions in Year 6. Bar models are a good way to show this and to help with comparing fractions. At first it is easier to work with fractions when one denominator is a multiple of the other. Later, children can use their knowledge of common multiples to look at pairs of fractions where the denominators are not multiples of each other.

Our latest step-by-step tutorials include equivalent fractions, comparing fractions as well as addition and subtraction. They cover:

• Understanding equivalent fractions
• Comparing fractions
• Adding fractions with different denominators
• More on adding fractions
• Subtracting fractions with different denominators
• More on subtracting fractions