Year 4 Review of fractions worksheet

“Choosing the whole” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 4 maths unit “Review of fractions”, for children aged 8 to 9, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Week 23 of the year, 5 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Choosing the whole

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 4 · Maths · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can decide which thing is the whole, then name the parts that make it up.

A Look back3 min

1.
50 + 7 =
2.
30 - 14 =
3.
Write < or > : 63 36

B Watch me, then you4 min

Mina has 15 counters. 6 are green. The rest are yellow. How many are yellow?

Watch me

The whole is all 15 counters.

One part is the 6 green counters.

15 - 6 = 9, so 9 are yellow.

Now you

1.
A box has 14 pencils. 6 are sharp. How many are blunt?

C Your turn6 min

Each tub is the whole. Find the missing number in each row.

1.
A tub has 40 shells. 12 are white. How many are not white?
2.
A tub has 40 shells. 25 are white. How many are not white?
3.
A tub has 60 shells. 25 are white. How many are not white?
4.
A tub has 25 white shells and 35 grey shells. How many shells altogether?

Say it out loud: Which number is the whole in each row, and which number changed?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A round cake on a plate with one slice cut out and set beside it

Ali says: “A cake is too big to be a part of anything. It can only ever be a whole.”

1.
Which one is right?
A cake can be a part too, such as one cake in a box of 4.A cake is too big to be a part. It is always a whole.

E Think deeper4 min

A family has 3 bikes with 2 wheels each. A wheel is a part of one bike. One bike is a part of the family's 3 bikes.

1.
Pick one thing in your home. Write two sentences: one where it is the whole, and one where it is a part of something bigger.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Choosing the whole · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. 57

2. 16

3. >

B

1. 8 If your child writes 20, they added the sharp pencils to the whole. The sharp ones are a part, so take them away from 14.

C

1. 28 If your child writes 52, they added the white shells to the whole. Take the 12 white shells away from 40.

2. 15

3. 35 If your child writes 85, they added 25 to 60. The whole is 60, so the answer must be less than 60.

4. 60 If your child takes 25 from 35, they have found a difference, not the whole. Both groups go into the tub, so join them together.

D

1. A cake can be a part too, such as one cake in a box of 4. Size does not decide it. The cake is the whole when we cut it into slices, but it is one part of a box of 4 cakes.

E

1. Look for: Two sentences about one object: one where the object is the whole with its parts named, and one where the object is a part of something bigger.

Words to use

Say“Which thing is the whole? Say that first, then name the parts.”

Instead of“Just tell them which answer is right.”

After the sheet

Put 12 buttons in a bowl. Count them all as the whole, then move 4 to a cup and count what is left in the bowl.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

4 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Equal or unequal parts(with a plan)
Equal parts that look different(with a plan)
Part and whole sizes(with a plan)
Building the whole(with a plan)

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