Fourth Grade Fraction Workshop

ObjectiveTeachers will have a deeper understanding of the Fraction Domain of the Common Core. They will demonstrate their understanding through their struggle of working through the given activities and through the use of precise language when sharing their thinking.

What is a Fraction?

It is a Number!!!

Fractions is taught by doing not by telling.

Fractions is more than just a part of the whole.

Activity 1Discuss

Two important aspects about Fractions

Specifying the Whole

Explaining what is meant by equal parts

Congruent figures have the same area.

The Focus is Area and not the Shape

What fraction is represented by the

following shaded area?

National Library of Virtual ManipulativesFractions Visualizing

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/category_g_2_t_1.html

The Fat InchDirections

ComparisonSame Numerator

Same Denominator

Compare to a benchmark

Counting with unit Fraction

The Number Line(Area to Length)

Counting and Decomposing

Equivalent Fractions

Equivalence by Subdividing the area

1 2 3

1

2

3

4

1 2 3

Addition

Teaching Addition

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Closing ActivityHighlight

In Blue what you are sure of

In Yellow what you still have questions

In Red what you do not understand