Imagine your team has 12 sliotars to share out fairly. If three players share them equally, how many does each player get? And here is the tricky question: what fraction of all the sliotars does one player end up holding?

Watch the counters get shared into equal groups: each time we press Deal one, every group gets one more counter. The bottom number of the fraction tells us how many groups to make. Predict how many will land in each group before the last round goes in.

Today we work through these together on the equal-groups tool: one half of 6, one third of 12, one quarter of 8, and one fifth of 10. Each time we share the whole set into the number of equal groups the bottom of the fraction asks for, then read off how many are in one group.