Colouring NestSimplifying Fractions Worksheet
- Ages 9–11
- Medium
- 2 pages
- Worksheet
- Answer key
- PDF: Letter & A4
- Updated
Tip: download the PDF for Letter or A4 paper, print it at 100% and use a pencil or crayon. Tap "Show solution" to check your answer, or print it as an answer key.
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Sixteen fractions to write in their simplest form, with denominators up to 24, such as 12/18 or 10/14. Divide the top and the bottom by a number that goes into both, and keep going until only 1 goes into both: 12/18 is 6/9, which is 2/3. Children who know their times tables find the biggest common factor in one step. The answer key gives the simplest form only.
Also try: Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions · Fraction Wall (Fraction Bars) · Fraction Number Lines 0 to 1
Tips for this fraction worksheet
- Find a number that goes into both the top and the bottom.
- Divide both by it, then look again: can you go on?
- Check by multiplying back up to the fraction you started with.
Page 2 of the PDF is the answer key. The fraction number lines show the same fractions as distances from 0 to 1. When this sheet feels easy, move on to the times tables worksheets, which make simplifying quicker. See all fraction worksheets.
For teachers and parents
- What it practises
- Equal parts, halves, thirds and quarters, equivalent and comparing fractions, adding, simplifying and mixed numbers
- How to use it
- Say each fraction in words (“three quarters”). Use folded paper strips or the fraction wall for the first sheets. Answers on page 2.
- Time
- About 10–20 minutes
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Printing tips
- Fold paper strips into halves, quarters and eighths before the first sheet.
- Say fractions in words: “three quarters”, “two fifths”.
- Mark with page 2 and redo the wrong ones the next day.
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