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...

Learners 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. In 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.

Put fractions in simpler terms. Learners watch a video showing how to simplifying fractions. They then work through two worksheets to practice the skill.

What's the proper way to convert fractions? A short video shows three quick examples of converting an improper fraction to a mixed number. Pupils practice doing their own conversions to better understand the skill.