IntroducingFractions

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Day1SquatchinNumberLine

Day2TheFractionKit(FromDotheMathChapter2)

Studentscutfractionpiecesforhalves,fourths,eighthsandsixteenths.

Day3PatternBlockFractions,Version2fromBeyondFractions,Version2
Studentsinvestigatethesizeofthefractionswhendifferentpatternblocksaredesignedasthe
part.Theysummarizetheirfindinginachart,whichexplicitlyshowsthatablockcanhave
severalfractionalnames,dependingonitsrelationshiptotheblockthatisawhole.

Day412cmNumberLines(Pages3538fromBeyondPizzasandPies)
StudentsusethenumberlinetodiscovertheruleThesmallerthedenominator,thelargerthe
fractionholdstrueonlywhenthenumeratorsarethesame.Studentswillsee,however,that
whenthenumeratorsaredifferent,thecomparisonsofanytwofractionsismorecomplex.

Day5ComparingFractions(Uncover,Version1fromDotheMathEquivalenceand
Comparison)
StudentslearnandplaythegameUncover,whichgivesthemexperiencewithidentifying
equivalentfractions.

WaysMathematiciansCompareFractions
Studentslearndifferentwaystocomparefractions
compareunitfraction
comparefractionswithcommonnumerator
comparefractionswithcommondenominators

Materials
ComparingFractionsToolKit(fromDotheMathWorkspace,p1andp9)

Day6ComparingFractions(Uncover,Version1fromDotheMathEquivalenceand
Comparison)

WaysMathematiciansCompareFractions
Studentslearndifferentwaystocomparefractions
comparefractionsthatareoneunitfraction,afractionwherethenumeratoris1.
comparefractionsto.
changefractionstoequivalentfractions

Day8MeasuringwiththeCuisenaireRods

2:00timeImproperFractions
Youcanuselesson3fromDotheMathlessonthree

Day9WorkingwiththeTwoUnitNumberLine(fromBeyondFractions)
Studentswill:
Examineimproperfractionsandwhattheymean.
Reinforcethatfractionpiecescanhaveseveralfractionalnames,dependingonitsrelationship
totheblockthatisawhole.

Day10Investigation2.2ofUnit4

Day11IntroduceRoll5andIdentifyingequivalentfractionsandwritingequations
(DotheMathA,Lesson14)
Studentsidentifyequivalentfractionsandwritethemasmixednumbersandimproperfractions.

Day10ProgressMonitoring(pages22and23ofFractionBookA)
Namepartsofawholeasfractionandusestandardnotation.
Identifyequivalentfractions
Addfractions
Communicateideaswithkeymathvocabulary:
fraction,equation,andmixednumber.
Whatisyourwhole,when..(needtocreate)

Day11Investigation1.2RelatingFractionsandPercents(Exposure)
Findingfractionalpartsofawholeorofagroup(ofobjects,people,andsoon)
Findingpercentageofarectangulararea
Identifyingfractionandpercentequivalentsthroughreasoningaboutrepresentationsandknown
equivalentsandrelationships.

2:00FindingCommonDenominators

Day12Investigation1.3FindingpercentsofanArea
Findingfractionalpartsofarectangulararea
Findingapercentageofarectangulararea
Identifyingfractionandpercentequivalentsthroughreasoningaboutrepresentationsandknown
equivalentsandrelationships.

Day13Investigation1.4PercentEquivalentsforThirdsandSixths
Findingfractionalpartsofarectangulararea
Identifyingfractionandpercentequivalentsthroughreasoningaboutrepresentationsandknown
equivalentsandrelationships.

Day14FractionofaNumber(SaxonLessonTBA)

Day15Investigation1.5Assessment:SolvingProblemswithFractionsandPercents
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