Fractions in Real Life

Fractions For Numeracy

One of the more challenging things that you'll have to do is to show you can do fractions in a real tense (real life).

Remember that your fractions should be found from your own numbers in a real example.

Here is the online exemplar example from www.nzqa.govt.nz website.

[this is a great place for all kiwi students to know where to find the difficulty of each part].

Here is a plan for a hui with lots of people - you can see how many people are coming along and that the first problem is a fraction one (one third).

Can you see that the answer has words, working out and units (cups) so that it shows all required.   


Here are some practice ones for you...

1. John weighs 98 kgs.  The doctor tells him that his weight 2/15ths fat.  How much kgs of fat is that?
2. The doctor tells him that he needs to lose 1/10th of his weight.  How much should he weigh after a diet?

Actual real life problems that you can work on.

NCEA Level One.  You need to get 80 credits to pass Level One.  What fraction of all your credits is 80 credits?

NCEA Level One.  How many credits will you expect to have sat by the end of this term - i.e. what is one quarter of your internal credits?

NCEA Level One.  What fraction of your credits offer literacy?  What fraction of your credits offer numeracy?