Identify how many equal parts a whole has been divided into | Maths

Starter quiz

Which set has an odd number of counters?
- A ✓
- B
How many counters in the array?
- '12' ✓
Look at the sequence of months. Which season is missing?
- Spring ✓
- Summer
- Autumn
- Winter
How many intervals has the line been split up into?
- 3 ✓
- 4
- 2
What is 12 divided by 2? Use your times tables facts
- '6' ✓
What is 12 divided by 4? Use your times tables facts.
- '3' ✓

Exit quiz

Which of these wholes has been divided into equal parts?
Look at the picture. What’s the whole?
- A line ✓
- A shape
- A quantity
Look at the image. What's the whole?
- A line
- A shape ✓
- A quantity
How many equal parts has this whole been divided into?
- '3' ✓
How many equal parts has this whole been divided into?
- '3' ✓
Which of these wholes has been divided into 6 equal parts?

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Key learning points

The whole has been divided into __ equal parts.
The whole can be one shape or a group of objects.
A whole can be divided into equal parts in different ways.

Common misconception

Children may have difficulty identifying the number of parts when dealing with cardinality and quantity. For example, dividing a class up into equal groups.

Use a bar model to show a number of children being divided into equal parts. The bar model will then link to the paper strips in the slides.

Keywords

Whole - The whole is all the parts or everything, the total amount.
Part - A part is some of the whole.
Equal - We say that two or more things are equal if they have the same quantity or value.
Unequal - We say that two or more things are unequal if they do not have the same quantity or value.