Online shopping – fractions

Your family has just received their online shopping order, and needs you to help put the fruit and veggies away. 

1.Draw a lay out of your kitchen in your maths book eg. where the fridge is, fruit bowl, and pantry. 

2. You have received:

• 10 oranges
• 12 apples 
• 12 potatoes 
• 10 onions 
• 1 punnet of strawberries 
• 6 bananas

3. These are the instructions your mum or dad gives you, draw in your book where everything would go in your kitchen. 

• ½ the oranges in the fruit bowl, ½ in the fridge
• ¼ apples in the fruit bowl, ¾ in the fridge
• ¼  potatoes in the cupboard, ¼  on the bench to cook for dinner, ½ in the fridge 
• ½ onions in cupboard, ½ on the bench to cook for dinner
• 1 whole punnet of strawberries in the fridge
• ½ bananas in the fruit bowl, ½ in the fridge

Extension:

Change  numbers to be 1/3 and 1/8’s

. You have received:

• 15 oranges
• 12 apples 
• 24 potatoes 
• 10 onions 
• 1 punnet of strawberries 
• 9 bananas

3. These are the instructions your mum or dad gives you, draw in your book where everything would go in your kitchen. 

• ⅓ the oranges in the fruit bowl, ⅔  in the fridge
• ¼ apples in the fruit bowl, ¾ in the fridge
• 2/8 potatoes in the cupboard, ⅛  on the bench to cook for dinner, the remaining potatoes in the fridge 
• ½ onions in cupboard, ½ on the bench to cook for dinner
• 1 whole punnet of strawberries in the fridge
• ⅓ bananas in the fruit bowl, ⅔  in the fridge