Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Book 1 (Year 1)

Schofield & Sims Fractions, Decimals and Percentages is a comprehensive programme that supports a mastery approach to teaching and learning this tricky area of maths. Comprising six pupil books and six accompanying teacher’s guides, this structured series helps children to develop a deep, secure and adaptable understanding of fractions, building up to decimals, percentages, ratio and proportion. 

The Fractions, Decimals and Percentages pupil books feature varied activities that directly correspond to the lessons provided in the supporting teacher’s guide. Each unit is set across a double-page spread containing a summary of the key learning point, followed by targeted practice, ranging from simple ‘Get started’ questions that help children gain confidence to more complex ‘Now you try’ and ‘Challenge’ questions that develop conceptual understanding and mathematical reasoning skills.  

Each pupil book also contains two Check-up tests and a separate Final test, enabling you to assess how securely pupils have grasped the concepts covered in each year. Marks for the Final test can be recorded on the Final test group record sheet at the back of each teacher’s guide, allowing you to evaluate how the whole class is performing in relation to the National Curriculum requirements. Other features include a self-evaluation checklist that encourages pupils to rate how they found each unit – ‘difficult’, ‘getting there’ or ‘easy’ – and a helpful Glossary to support the confident use of mathematical vocabulary. 

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Book 1 supports the National Curriculum requirements for Year 1 and covers the following topic areas:

• recognising and naming halves and quarters of numbers, shapes, objects and sets
• starting to use fraction notation for halves and quarters
• identifying and combining halves and quarters
• simple problem solving.

A separate accompanying teacher’s guide, Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Book 1 Teacher’s Guide, contains detailed lesson plans with supporting Graphics, assessment and record-keeping resources, and answers to all the questions in the corresponding pupil book. Online answers as well as a selection of free downloads are also available from the Schofield & Sims website.