In a recent survey, we found that (perhaps unsurprisingly) 99% of primary and lower secondary teachers spend considerable time looking for guidance with differentiated instruction activities. With differentiation an obvious concern, we have created free fraction worksheets for grade 4 and 7 maths that you can download and use today.
The worksheets provide three levels of activity to support less confident learners and offer challenge for those who are more confident. You’ll also see this approach in our primary and lower secondary workbooks.
Differentiated instruction activities – fractions
Download the Cambridge Primary Grade 4 maths worksheet here.
Download the Cambridge Lower Secondary Grade 7 maths worksheet here.
(Example from Grade 4 fractions worksheet)
Support all your learners
We understand that it is impossible to provide students individually tailored activities for every lesson. There just aren’t enough hours in the day! Providing resources that get progressively more difficult is one way to overcome this. These help challenge the learners who would normally finish early, while also providing core questions that help students who might be finding the topic more difficult.
We’ve taken this approach in our primary and lower secondary workbooks with the Focus, Practice and Challenge sections.
Focus, Practice, Challenge
Focus activities are a good place to start; they help students to consolidate their knowledge of new concepts and build confidence. Practice then provides activities that are slightly more difficult. Working through these helps students apply what they’ve learnt, ensuring that the knowledge sticks with them.
Challenge activities stretch learners who are more confident with a topic; you could use these with your students who finish other activities early, or set them as homework when students have a little more time to think. It’s up to you!
As well as differentiating by activity, there are many other differentiation strategies you can use in the classroom. You may find you’re already doing some already, without calling them differentiated instruction.
If you would like to find out more about our workbooks, take a look at our new primary and lower secondary series.
