Hands on Fraction Fun
Beyond Pizzas & Pies and Beyond Invert too Multiply this by summertime I had enough of novel ideas too lessons to sweat out only I all the same hadn't quite figured how I wanted to boot off this unit. This cast inwards detail has a huge bridge of might levels too experiences too I wanted everyone to hold upwards able to access this outset lesson without it beingness to slowly for one-half the class. I every bit good wanted to supply them alongside a hands on sense using fractions inwards their world.
I decided to bring them inwards mixed might groups exploring some fraction manipulatives. I set a manipulative at each tabular array along alongside a large slice of nautical chart newspaper too a multifariousness of markers. Their chore was to explore the materials too write downward anything they noticed. I had four stations each alongside dissimilar manipulatives. We used fraction bars, fraction circles, cuisinare rods too standard cups too spoons.
I borrowed the sand tabular array from Kindergarten too threw inwards a multifariousness of standard cups too spoons. Most of these I constitute this by summertime at the Dollar Tree. The nighttime orangish cups are a fix of ancient Tupperware cups which I LOVE because they bring a 2/3 too a 3/4 cup. These were too thus slap-up for kids to utilisation to explore non-unit fractions. Kids spent lots of fourth dimension filling too ordering cups. They every bit good liked filling too organizing the spoons. Because the sets included 1/2 cup, 1/2 tsp too 1/2 Tbsp kids were every bit good able to explore the thought that the size of 1/2 tin alter based on the whole changing.
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As students made discoveries, I had them jot them downward on nautical chart paper. This was a slap-up means to tape what they had discovered to percentage alongside the other students at the terminate of class. We every bit good went dorsum to this nautical chart newspaper role means through the unit of measurement to review some ideas.
Each grouping had almost 12 minutes at each station. We spent the concluding fifteen minutes of cast having each educatee percentage something they learned. We posted all the nautical chart papers too refereed dorsum to them every bit our unit of measurement progressed. I was able to proceed the sand tabular array for the outset two weeks of the unit of measurement too several times I had kids (especially those inwards my intervention group) become dorsum to the sand tabular array to explore something specific to a greater extent than or less the ideas nosotros were learning.
If yous bring the chance, I highly recommend starting off your fraction unit of measurement alongside this variety of hands on exploration. Even if yous don't bring access to a sand table, putting some standard cups too spoons inwards a bucket of rice or a bowl of H2O would every bit good give kids a similar experience.
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