A picture can hold a number
A bar split into 4 parts with 3 shaded is not a drawing of nothing — it IS 3/4. Learning to read it means you can check an answer without calculating.
Class 4 to 6 · 23 games
Pictures of numbers, explained with pictures
Reading a number off a picture — a bar, a circle, a number line.
In everyday life: A progress bar filling up, a pie chart on TV, the marks on a measuring jug.
A number line puts every number in one place
Whole numbers, fractions, decimals and negatives all live on the same line. Further right is always bigger. If you can find it on the line, you know how big it is.
A worked example
A circle is cut into 8 equal slices and 6 are shaded. What fraction is that?
6/8, which is the same as 3/4
8 equal slices makes the bottom number 8, and 6 shaded makes the top number 6. Pairing the slices up shows it is also 3 out of 4.
Words to know
- number line
- A straight line where every point is a number, growing to the right.
- area model
- A shape split into equal parts, with some of them shaded.
In the games
You will link pictures to the numbers they show, and place numbers at the right spot on a line.
Skills
- Read a fraction circle · Class 4
- Read an area / bar model · Class 4
- Reason on a number line · Class 5
By class
Class 4 pictures of numbers (9) · Class 5 pictures of numbers (12) · Class 6 pictures of numbers (2)
Practise pictures of numbers in Tivumo
No download, no account for your child. Classes 3 to 12, more than 1,000 games.