Lesson Plan
Lakeshore Learning

Comparing and Ordering Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Math can be satisfying for the mind and the stomach! Incorporate slices of pizza into your fractions lesson with a set of informative resources. After a brief guided lesson on comparing and ordering fractions, young mathematicians...
Worksheet
Math Mammoth

Divide Fractions 1

For Students 5th - 7th
Use visual shading and scenario questions to help your mathematicians divide fractions in this problem-solving worksheet! Students shade parts and solve, write multiplication and division sentences, solve word problems, and find...
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Primary Resources

Identifying Ratios

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Kids complete three different activities to better understand how to identify ratios and then write them in simplest form. Ratios are represented by fraction strips of two different colors. Pupils write what ratio of blue to red is...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

To Be (Half) Or Not To Be (Half)

For Teachers 1st
First graders demonstrate various ways to represent and verify a whole or set separated in two, three, or four equal parts. Using interlocking cubes, Students model a part of a whole or a part of a set. They use appropriate tools and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fraction Action

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students solve problems with fractions. In this algebra lesson, students review the names of fraction and equivalent fractions. They review multiplication and how to find the inverse of a division problem.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Fractional Parts of a Group

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this fraction worksheet, students use counters to find answers to 6 problems, all asking for a fractional part of a whole number. Houghton Mifflin text is referenced.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing Numbers Using Expanded Form

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review number placement by identifying hundreds, tens and ones place in a series of numbers. Using play money, they write numbers in expanded form. They complete a worksheet review on writing fractional parts and review...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Independent Practice: Fractions of Numbers

For Students 4th - 5th
For this fraction worksheet, students multiply fractions by whole numbers. All fractions are in lowest terms. There are no mixed fractions on this worksheet page. This one-page worksheet contains 18 problems.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem Solving Use a Picture

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this problem solving activity, students learn to use a picture to find a fraction and compare two fractions. Students read 4 story problems about fractional parts of a whole and solve them by using the picture.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Fractions: One Half of the Whole

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing halves as fractional parts of wholes worksheet, learners identify and shade the figures that are divided in half. Students color and explain 12 answers.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Equivalent Fraction Paper Strips

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Young learners compare the relative values of fractions by making physical representations. They fold and label strips of paper that are equal in length to represent "one whole" and the equal parts that fractions represent. Also, they...
Lesson Plan
NTTI

I'll Halve S'more Please!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
There is a lot to learn about fractions, and this is a fun way to do it! Individuals participate in a Cyberchase activity to describe a fraction in terms of sharing parts of a whole. They determine the meaning of the parts of a fraction,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fractions Forever!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Middle schoolers identify proper, improper fractions, and mixed numbers.  They reduce fractions to their lowest terms. They add and subtract fractions with different denominators, and multiply and divide fractions, as well as...
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Curated OER

Matching Fractions

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Focus on halves, thirds, and fourths in these visual fraction activities. Scholars begin by examining a grid with various expressions of the three fractions displayed in the grid squares. They color-code the grid to indicate which...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Putting the Pieces Together

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Children explore fractions on a conceptual level by making individual quilt squares. Each student works with small paper swatches to divide them into pieces that represent a given fraction. The class is then separated into groups and...
Worksheet
McGraw Hill

Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers

For Students 4th - 8th
Adding and subtracting mixed numbers will be a breeze with this guided worksheet packet. Learners work through examples outlining each step including rewriting mixed numbers as improper fractions, adding numerators, and rewriting the sum...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Fractions

For Students 3rd - 4th
What fraction is represented by these shapes? Scholars examine fraction models as they apply basic fraction skills. The first two problems are guided; they look at a set of shapes with some shaded, circling (from three options) the...
Activity
Illustrative Mathematics

Mixed Numbers with Unlike Denominators

For Teachers 5th Standards
There is more than one way to add mixed numbers. This instructional activity asks 5th graders to find and record two ways. The purpose is to help pupils realize there are different ways to reach a common solution in math. The two most...
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Tech4Learning

Fantastic Fractions

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Learners study how shapes can be divided into equal parts, that each part be equal to its counterpart, and combining parts equals one whole. They make the shapes out of modeling clay and take digital pictures of its parts to create an...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sharing Brownies: Fractions That Represent a Fair Share

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Elementary graders discover the concept of fractional pieces of a whole. They investigate the meanings of fractions in everyday life and why they are used. Pupils divide brownies amongst each other to demonstrate the use of fractions...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Fractions

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Represent fractions visually using shape models. Scholars color in two sets of shapes to represent specific fractions: 2/3 and 3/4. The shapes are segmented into equivalent fractions for most of these, so scholars need to understand this...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fractions of A Pizza

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students view a large illustration of a pizza with parts of velcro.  In this addition and subtraction of fractions lesson plan, students solve problems based on the pieces missing from the pizza. Students take a fraction quiz. Order...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Locating Fractions Greater than One on the Number Line

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Supplement your lesson on improper fractions with this simple resource. Working on number lines labeled with whole numbers between 0 and 5, young mathematicians represent basic improper fractions with halves and thirds. The fractions...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

The Stamp Collection

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
By using language like "half of the stamps," children are exposed to patterns in arithmetic that requires solving a two-step word problem. This type of language opens a new door for transitioning learners toward understanding fractions...