Piece by piece young scholars build a basic understanding of fractions in a Common Core-designed elementary math lesson. Through a series of hands-on activities and journaling exercises, and with the help of multiple online resources, your class will quickly learn how to identify fractions on number lines and represent them with visual models.

Concepts

fractions, fraction strips, unit fractions, fraction models, mixed numbers

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Perform this lesson after introducing the class to the concept of fractions
• Be sure to model how to complete each whole group activity before asking students to participate

Classroom Considerations

• The lesson calls for the use of a SMART Board, but a computer hooked up to a projector will work as well
• If computers and/or tablet devices are not available in your classroom, schedule time in the computer lab so students can complete the technology activities
• Though designed to take place over four days, the timing of this lesson can be adjusted to fit your own class schedule

Pros

• A pre-assessment is provided which serves as a guide when grouping students during the lesson
• Offers a teacher reference with activities for differentiating instruction
• Two different rubrics are provided for assessing learning 

Cons

• None

Common Core

3.NF.A.1 3.NF.A.2.a 3.NF.A.2.b MP5 MP7