In this activity, we'll look at how to find a fraction of a whole number.

 

If this sounds, complicated... don't panic!  We'll go through the steps below and you'll see it's easier than it sounds.

 

STEP 1

 

To do this, we divide 15 by our denominator.

(Remember, this is the number that is on the bottom or down below our fraction line)

 

In this case, our denominator is 5 so we need to do the following division calculation:

15 ÷ 5 = 3

 

STEP 2

Let's look again at the original question.  

 

 

 

 

 

If you said that we should multiply our answer by 2, you'd be correct!

3 × 2 = 6

 

There we go, the correct answer is 6.  

 

Always remember to start off by working out what 1/5 is first, and then you can work the rest out from there!

 

Let's give this a go.