Year 6: Fractions | The Maths Channel

Duration: 8'51''

Synopsis

Featuring spoof investigative item Kenneth Confronts, which exposes a dishonest pizza seller, and street maths with Kjartan Poskitt, who demonstrates how to divide a cake into eight pieces.

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