Online answers as well as a selection of free supporting downloads are available from the Schofield & Sims website.
Fractions, Decimals and Percentages is a comprehensive programme that supports a mastery approach to teaching and learning this tricky area of maths. Comprising six pupil books and six accompanying teacher's guides, this structured series helps children to develop a deep, secure and adaptable understanding of fractions, building up to decimals, percentages, ratio and proportion.
Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Book 3 supports the National Curriculum requirements for Year 3 and covers the following topic areas: using unit and non-unit fractions; comparing and ordering fractions with the same denominator; finding equivalent fractions using a fraction wall; counting in tenths; adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator; and problem solving.
A separate accompanying teacher's guide, Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Book 3 Teacher's Guide (ISBN 9780721713809), contains supporting lesson plans, answers to all the questions in the pupil book, and a range of assessment and record-keeping resources.
Each Fractions, Decimals and Percentages pupil book provides:
- full curriculum coverage
- a user-friendly summary of the key learning point of each unit
- plenty of practice, from quick questions that help pupils gain confidence to more challenging problems that build conceptual understanding and reasoning skills
- regular revision tests to reinforce learning and identify strengths and weaknesses
- a self-evaluation checklist that encourages children to assess their own learning
- a Glossary to expand mathematical vocabulary.