Equal parts first
Children learn fractions as equal shares of one whole. Circles and bars show the same idea two ways, so the fraction is not tied to one shape.In the MATATAG curriculum
- Grade 1Halves and quarters (1/2 and 1/4) as parts of a whole, and counting halves and quarters.
- Grade 2Unit fractions with denominators 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8, then similar fractions, ordered with charts, tiles and the number line.
- Grade 3Fractions equal to one and greater than one, and adding and subtracting similar fractions with models.
Philippine classrooms read 1/4 as “one-fourth”, the same word children know from a one-fourth sheet of pad paper. “Similar fractions” is the local name for fractions with the same denominator, such as 2/6 and 5/6; a shade-it task with several parts shaded is Grade 2 similar-fraction work.
Grade 1 needs only halves and fourths. The Grade 2 list runs from halves to eighths and includes fifths, so the bigger settings here are Grade 2 work, not Grade 3.
Summarised in our own words from DepEd’s MATATAG Mathematics Curriculum Guide, Grades 1–10 (2023).
