Using Recipes to Reinforce Fractions

Your learners will enjoy thoroughly understanding fractions, and you will appreciate the abundant, quality resources in this comprehensive unit that builds toward a complete understanding of the concept of fractions as numbers. Many...

Use geometry to transform learning! This introduction to transformations has pupils use patty paper and rubber bands to create rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations. Individuals learn the vocabulary and notation related to...

Use powers of 10 to convert between fractions and decimals. Pupils convert decimals to fractions by using place values in the 13th installment of a 25-part series. Class members reverse the process and find equivalent fractions with a...

Explore the meaning of equivalent fractions. A video instructor shows the process of creating equivalent fractions both visually and mathematically. After explaining how to create equivalent fractions from the most simple form, she...

Word problems are a great way to help learners visualize and understand why fractions are so important. Sal determines what fraction of 3/4 cup of oats he will need if he is making 1/2 a recipe. He uses drawings to demonstrate why one...

Students use recipes to add fractions and convert improper fractions to proper fractions and mixed numbers. In this fraction lesson plan, students watch a video on someone making a recipe and compare and change the recipes to fit the...

Students compare fractions by changing them to percentages. For this fractions and percentages lesson, students watch video clips and complete the accompanying worksheets asking them to change fractions to percentages.

Take a look at the percentage of fractions. Mathematicians learn two different methods to convert fractions to percents. Using two worksheets, classmates practice the methods to determine when one method works easier than the other.

Check this out! Make equivalent fractions by multiplying or dividing a given value. It's a useful skill to have in math. Watch this video as the instructor demonstrates several ways to get equivalent fractions.

Put fractions with different original denominators in order using the least common denominator. Once she has shown how to find the least common denominator, an instructor constructs equivalent fractions that are more easily compared to...