Maths: Age 8
16 illustrated Maths lessons for Age 8.
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One half is the same as two quarters When you cut a whole into equal parts, each part is a fraction of it. Different fractions can cover exactly th… -
Four quarters make one whole When you cut a strip into 4 equal pieces, each piece is one quarter. You can count quarters along a line, just… -
Rows and columns in a muffin tin When things sit in equal rows, you can multiply instead of counting them one by one. Count across by rows or d… -
Half a cake, three ways Each cake is cut into a different number of equal pieces, but the pink part is always half of the cake. One ha… -
Two Strips with Shaded Parts Both paper strips are the same length and split into five equal parts. The strip with four colored parts has a… -
Three Quarters and Six Eighths Two same-size strips are split into equal parts. The top strip has three of four parts blue, and the bottom st… -
Square Stones on a Garden Bed The garden bed is covered with equal square stones. You can find its area by counting how many stones fit insi… -
Paper Butterfly Mirror A paper butterfly lies open on a table. A mirror along its middle shows what the other half looks like.… -
Subtract 9 in Your Head To subtract 9, first take away 10. Then add 1 back, because you took away one too many.… -
Six Times Seven Six rows of seven dots show 6 × 7. Five rows make 35, and one more row adds 7, so the total is 42.… -
Double 24 Doubling 24 means putting two groups of 24 together. The two groups make 48 in all.… -
Adding in Your Head Add the tens first, then add the units. Put the two answers together to find the total.… -
Place Value Blocks A digit's place tells what it counts: ones, tens, hundreds, or thousands. Ten in one place make one in the nex… -
Two Equal Strawberry Groups Each dish has the same number of strawberries. Two dishes with two strawberries each make four strawberries al… -
One Piece of Four The flatbread is cut into four pieces that are all the same size. One piece is one part of the whole flatbread… -
A Butterfly Folded in Half This paper was folded straight down the middle, then painted. The left half and the right half look exactly th…