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Find Half of Amounts by Sharing Equally

In this worksheet, students will find half of the objects by sharing equally into two groups.

'Find Half of Amounts by Sharing Equally ' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 1

Year:  Year 1 Maths worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Number: Fractions

Curriculum subtopic:   Recognise Halves and Quarters

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Worksheet Overview

In this activity, we will be looking at halving amounts of objects.

We will do this by sharing the objects equally into two groups. 

 

Let's have a look at an example. 

 

Here we have 6 cakes:

 

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We need to halve the cakes. This means they need to be shared equally into two groups. 

 

Equal means that there needs to be the same number of cakes in each group. 

 

So let's share them out.

 

We will go along and share the cakes into each group. 

The first cake will go into the first group and the second will go into the next group like this:

 

 sharing out cakes 

 

Now one cake has gone into each group so the groups are equal, let's share out the next cakes:

 

 cake sharing 

 

Now there are two cakes in each group, let's share the final cakes:

 

 sharing out cakes 

 

Here we have shared all six cakes. They have been shared into two groups and there are three in each group. 

 

As there are three in each group, there are an equal number in each group! 

 cake sharing 

 

This means that 6 cakes shared equally into 2 groups makes 3 cakes in each group. 

 

This also means that half of 6 is 3. 

 

Now, let's have a go at some questions about sharing objects equally!

Are you ready? 

 

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