Baxter Teaches Us Fractions

Baxter divided the beads on the abacus in half. He had 100 beads and worked out that there would be 50 in each half because 50 + 50 = 100.

Then we challenged Baxter to see if he could make it into four equal quarters and work out how many would be in each quarter. Baxter made his quarters using the four different colours and used his skip counting in 5s to work out there would be 25 in each quarter. 

25 + 25 + 25 + 25 = 100. 

Our next challenge is to see if you can make thirds out of 100 beads? Would each third be equal? Can it be done?