Key Stage 1 Numeracy Homework
Year 2 Division
"Birthday Cake Poem"

What will this game will achieve?
This will help your child to recognise fractions, and to understand that two halves or four quarters make one whole, and that two quarters and one half are equivalent..

You will need:

                                                       
How do you play?

• Put the cake together and place it on the grid
• Say the following rhyme

  It was Mandy's birhtday
  And Mum made her a cake
  She blew out all the candles
  From one right up to eight
  Then she cut the cake in half
  She cut right down the middle,
  Again the halves she cut in two
  Before she said this riddle;
  "I've shared this cake fair and square,
  My firends each have a quater.
  But now there's nothing left for me
  Except for bread and water!

• Say the rhyme to your child and ask him/her to act it out using the cake pieces. You might like to substitute Mandy's name for your child's.