{"product_id":"christmas-tree-fractions-of-a-collection-craftivity","title":"Christmas Tree Fractions of a Collection Craftivity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFractions of a collection, made concrete — ten baubles, four colours, and a tree your students can see the maths in.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Christmas Tree Fractions of a Collection Craftivity builds one of the trickiest fraction ideas out of something students can hold. They colour the ten baubles on their tree using up to four colours, making each bauble one solid colour, then record every colour as a fraction of ten — 3\/10 red, 5\/10 green, 2\/10 gold. Because every bauble is coloured and each one is a single colour, the fractions have to add to 10\/10, so the recording sheet checks itself. 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