Children grow up hearing the language of fractions used all around them. For example, a slice of bread, a half of a cake, a quarter to seven. Thus, when children enter school, they have been using the language and ideas of fractions for some time. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that a pupil who reaches Class 5 (11 to 12 age range) should, with or without instructions, perform better in fractions than a pupil in either Class 4 (10 to 11 age range) or Class 3 (9 to 10 age range). Similarly, a pupil of Class 4 should perform better in fractions than a pupil of Class 3; but this is not always the case as the writer has observed in his early years of teaching. In this article, however, the writer will deal specifically with the abilities to do fractions of pupils in the 9 to 11 age range, that is, pupils in Classes 3 and 4.