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Pocket Solar System
Motivate your class with this lesson. Learners explore the solar system and practice working with fractions using this resource. They construct scale models of our solar system, and use fractions to correctly configure the solar system...
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Add and Subtract fractions with like denominators
For this add and subtract fractions worksheet, students add and subtract fractions with like denominators. Students complete 3 problems.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Dividing with Fractions
Fifth graders explore the strategies to solve word problems using multiplication and division. In this problem solving instructional activity, 5th graders recognize the relationship between multiplication and division to solve...
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"NSN, Fractions/Decimals" Investigations
Fifth graders engage in a "layered" unit of discovery. There are three levels of potential learning opportunities, in the spirit of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver (bronze, silver, gold). The lesson is based upon fractions.
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Dividing Whole Numbers By Fractions
For this math worksheet, students find the answers to the division problems for the whole numbers and fractions. The answers are also available.
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Comparing Apples With Apples 2
Students use fractions strips to demonstrate addition and subtraction of fractions. They explore finding common denominations, examining equivalent fractions, and simplifying fractions. Students may work in groups or independently.
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Pizza Anyone?
Students, in groups, create models of pizzes and divide them, usin Unifix cubes, into fractions.
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True or Not True
In this fractions worksheet, students decide which number statement is true or not true. Students complete 5 problems and then draw the subtraction fraction problem that is true.
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Subtraction of Mixed Numbers
Pupils subtract mixed numbers that require regrouping and have a difference less than fifty.
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Basic Sense
Fifth graders add fractions. After a class discussion on real life application of fractions, the teacher uses fractions strips to model adding fractions. In pairs, 5th graders model adding fractions by drawing diagrams. They justify...
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"How Big is a Foot?" by Rolf Myller
Students use estimation and fractions and standard units of measure to measure foot strips.
Center for Math and Science Education
Pocket Solar System
How in the world can something as big as the solar system possibly fit in your pocket? Complete this simple modeling activity and find out, as young scientists gain an appreciation for the incredible scale of outer space.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Problem Solving by Using Multiplication to Solve Division Problems
Students use index cards, counting cubes, and their own understanding to identify how division problems can be solved by using multiplication. In this division lesson plan, students use their multiplication skills to solve division...
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Measurement & Cooking - Rice Krispie Treats
Students practice their measuring and cooking skills with a box of Rice Krispies. In this culinary lesson, students utilize a box of Rice Krispies, butter, marshmallows and utensils to cook a batch of Rice Krispie Treats. Students...
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Mobius Band
Tenth graders discuss sides of a shape and how to collect data correctly. In this geometry instructional activity, 10th graders examine shapes and count the surfaces on the shape. They read the history of Mobius Band and relate it to...
PBS
Pbs: Division of Fractions: Using Fraction Strips
Model division by a fraction using fraction strips. This video focuses on modeling division of a whole number by fractions.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Finding Equivalent Fractions
Using number lines and fraction strips helps students become familiar with benchmark fractions, equivalent fractions, and comparing fractions.
Toy Theater
Toy Theater: Fraction Strips
Use these colorful fraction strips to model fraction relationships and solve mixed fraction problems.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Fraction Strips [Pdf]
An activity to recognize and label the fraction. You will need the following materials: glue, scissors and the included fractions strips template.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Make Your Own Fraction Strips [Pdf]
An activity to work with fractions. Materials needed: sheet of legal size paper (81/2"x 14"), ruler, scissors, pencils and crayons.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Exploring Equivalent Fractions [Pdf]
Use fraction strips to explore equivalent fractions.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Folding Strips of Paper
The purpose of this task is to provide students with a concrete experience they can relate to fraction multiplication. Perhaps more importantly, the task also purposefully relates length and locations of points on a number line, a common...