Share £220 between Ella and Kira in the ratio 5 : 6. How much more money does Kira get than Ella?
Add the ratio parts first: equal shares. , so every single share is worth £20. Kira holds 6 and Ella holds 5, so the gap is 1 x . Notice the shares add straight back up to 220 - nothing is left over, because the total was cut into 11 equal pieces in the first place.
Step 1. One share. Cut £220 into 11 equal shares. Set the block size until they fill the bar exactly.
Step 2. Share out. How much more money does Kira get than Ella?
What to say if they get stuck
The ratio 5 : 6 means the whole lot is cut into 11 equal shares, not 2.
, so one share is worth £20.
Kira takes 6 shares and Ella takes 5, a gap of 1 shares.
The 11+ does not test these skills in isolation, and practising one in the wrong order wastes the practice. These are the skills the curriculum map connects this one to.
Both use multiplicative comparison but solve different structures.
Questions parents ask about share a total in a ratio
Answered from what the skill map records about this skill, not from a template. Every answer here is on the page, and the same questions are the page's FAQ structured data.
Divide one total into parts in a stated ratio. It is one of 55 named maths skills in the 11+, in the ratio strand, and this page carries 1 interactive exercise that practises it.
5 parts belong to Erin, so the larger share is not always the one asked for. The wrong answers on this skill are built out of that, not out of random numbers, so it is worth naming out loud before your child meets it under time pressure.
Point at the next move rather than explaining the whole rule. Add the two parts of the ratio together first - that tells you how many equal groups the 60 stickers split into.
The skill map draws the line here: One ratio and one total. A question past that line is testing a different named maths skill, which is worth knowing before you spend a week practising the wrong one.
The skill map connects it to scale quantities in a ratio. Both use multiplicative comparison but solve different structures. That skill has its own page here.
Use Share Out, embedded on this page. It is the exercise the skill map attaches to share a total in a ratio, it runs in the browser with no account to make, nothing is scored, and nothing a child does here is recorded or sent anywhere. It also has its own link, so you can send it to a child without sending them anywhere else first.
Knowing which maths topic to practise is most of the work
A free diagnostic covers arithmetic, fractions, geometry, measure and data handling, and comes back with the topics to spend the next few weeks on.
