TheSchoolRun.com closure date
As we informed you a few months ago, TheSchoolRun has had to make the difficult decision to close due to financial pressures and the company has now ceased trading. We had hoped to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.
As a result, we now have to permanently close TheSchoolRun.com. However, to give subscribers time to download any content they’d like to keep, we will keep the website open until 31st July 2025. After this date, the site will be taken down and there will be no further access to any resources. We strongly encourage you to download and save any resources you think you may want to use in the future.
In particular, we suggest downloading:
- Learning packs
- All the worksheets from the 11+ programme, if you are following this with your child
- Complete Learning Journey programmes (the packs below include all 40 worksheets for each programme)
You should already have received 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep. If you haven’t received these, please contact us at [email protected] before 31st July 2025, and we will send them to you.
We are very sorry that there is no way to continue offering access to resources and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.
What is the numerator?
What is the numerator?
The numerator is the top number of a fraction.
So in the fraction 3/8 the numerator is 3. In the fraction 1/9 the numerator is 1.
If a fraction has 1 as its numerator, it is called a unit fraction.
Fractions notation in Year 3 maths
Children need to find one half, one quarter and three quarters of shapes in Year 2.
In Year 3, they start using fraction notation (looking at the diagram below, writing 3/6 to express what they are seeing).
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It is helpful for them to see diagrams so that they are aware that the numerator is the number of parts shaded (for example, in the fraction above, 3 parts out of 6).
Fractions equivalence
In Years 3 and 4, children learn about equivalence. They will look at diagrams like the following fractions equivalence wall:
and start to understand how fractions can be the same, even if they are split up into different numbers of parts, which give them different denominators.
They also need to look at the relationship between the numerator and denominator in equivalent fractions; for example, in the diagram below, they may notice that 2 is a third of 6 and 4 is a third of 12.
In Years 4, 5 and 6 children need to relate fractions to their decimal equivalents.
To understand this, it is helpful for them to understand that decimals deal with whole numbers being split into one hundred equal parts, so a decimal number can be compared to a fraction with 100 as the denominator. The number that occurs after the decimal point in a decimal number then forms the numerator of an equivalent fraction, for example: 0.41 is 41/100.
Children then need to be able to simplify fractions by dividing the numerator and denominator by the same number.
They may also be given a list of fractions with different denominators and asked to convert them so that they all have the same denominator. This involves either multiplying or dividing both the numerator and denominator by the same number.
