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Identifying Equivalent Fractions

Maths: Year 3 & 4 National Curriculum, topic 5.4.1

Equivalent Fractions

Equivalent fractions are fractions that have the same value but have different numerators and denominators.

Equivalent fractions

Equivalent fractions

  • The fractions 35\large\frac{3}{5} and 610\large\frac{6}{10} are equivalent.
  • You can tell these fractions are equivalent because they have the same amount of the bar shaded.
  • The only thing that is different between the bars is how they have been split up.
Are these equivalent?

Are these equivalent?

  • You can spot equivalent fractions by seeing if you can multiply the numerator (the top number) and the denominator (the bottom number) by the same number to go between the fractions.
Are these equivalent?

Are these equivalent?

  • You can spot equivalent fractions by seeing if you can multiply the numerator (the top number) and the denominator (the bottom number) by the same number to go between the fractions.

Test yourself on Identifying Equivalent Fractions

  • What numerator would make these two fractions equivalent?

  • What numerator would make these two fractions equivalent?

  • What numerator would make these two fractions equivalent?

  • What denominator would make these two fractions equivalent?

  • What denominator would make these two fractions equivalent?

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