fractions, decimals and percents mini-course session six connecting fractions to decimals
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Fractions, Decimals and Percents Mini-course
Session Six
Connecting Fractions to Decimals
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Objectives
• To use paper strips as a manipulative for illustrating the connections between fractions and decimals.
• To use calculators as a tool to investigate patterns in the decimal representation of fractions.
• To Introduce the NCTM Reasoning and Proof Standard.
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Homework Discussion
• Share your solutions for correcting the errors on Decimal Problems 1.
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Paper Strip Activity
• Line up your decimal strip and fraction strip ( labeled in tenths) from last weeks class
• Notice that 6/10 =0.6 This means that they are equivalent.
• In the next activity you will find many other fraction and decimal equivalents.
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Fraction Family Strips
• Beginning with the strip for fourths, cut this out. The strip is already marked with the divisions for fourths.
• Now cut out and label each strip according to the fraction family. Without using a ruler to measure, mark the strip. You can fold it or compare it to the marks on another strip.
• Marks do not need to be accurate but do your best!
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Paper Strips continued..
• Share with others how you made your divisions/ markings on the strip.
• Now tape the fractions strips in order ( halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, eights, twentieths) onto construction paper lining up each strip side by side. Put ZERO on the bottom edge of the paper for each strip.
• Now name all the equivalent fractions that you see.
• How can you use these strips to compare fractions?
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Decimal Strips• How could we use the fraction strips to
find the decimal equivalents.
• Using the decimal strip, line it up against the fraction family strips and find all the common decimal equivalents or approximates.
Example: Using your fraction strip, find ½ and show that it equals 0.5 on your decimal strip.
Do same for ¼ and 0.25.
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Challenge your partner• Let one person name a fraction
found on your strips.
• Ask the partner to name the equivalent decimal name.
• Repeat, taking turns.
This method is a reasonable way to find decimal fractions, but not
completely precise. Why?
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Remember the cookie activity?
• If you have 3 cookies to share among 4 people, how much of a cookie does each person get?
• How can we write the answer as a decimal?
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Long Division
• A more precise method: LONG DIVISION
• Use long division to find the decimals of 3/20, 2/3 and 2/11
• Hmmm, what’s taking so long??Remember that technology standard? Shall we use a calculator????
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Long Division & Calculator Activity
• Now use the calculator to find the decimal for the same fractions. 3/20, 2/3 and 2/11
• Find 5/6 with your calculator.
• A repeating pattern is called an recurring decimal.
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Fraction Family Cards• List all Fractions within a
family e.g 1/6, 2/6, 3/6,4/6, 5/6
• Reduce all fractions not in lowest form (Imposters!)
• Use the calculator to change true fractions to decimals.
• Make a poster of all the family members for your assigned family card.
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NCTM Reasoning and Proof Standard
Instructional programs from P-12 should enable all students to:
•Make and investigate mathematical conjectures.
•Develop and evaluate mathematical arguments and proof.
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Family Card Posters
Look at all the family card posters:
•What traits did you notice within each family?
•What traits are similar between fractions?
•Which families might be relatives?
•What do all terminating or repeating families have in common?
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Reflection
• How is this like / unlike the experiences you remember from your previous math classes?
• What value do you see I making or testing conjectures?
• How does it make you feel?
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Homework:•Bringing Mathematics Home 6•Decimal Problems II• Bring your
paper strip display back next week!
• We’ll compare to percentages
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NO class next week!• UWSP is on Spring Break!
• We will meet next on
Tues. March 25 which we realize is Spring Break
for local schools.
• What fraction of classes are left?