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Fraction Activities and Lessons

The website provides teachers with various activities and lesson plans to help teach fractions using real world things. This site provides activities and lessons that teach students about fractions using concrete real world items.

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Lesson Variations

Blooms taxonomy level:

Understanding

Helpful Hints

Materials:

10 inch flour tortillas (2 for each student)
Markers and marker board (one large one for all responses or individual ones for each student)
Colored Paper (various shades)
Crayons/colored pencils
Overhead (optional)
Base-ten blocks
Pies, and/or cakes (All the same size!)
Cutting utensil
Just the kids at first!
Graph paper and lined paper (or you can make your own worksheets)
Paper with three columns
pencil
Construction paper cirlces (pizzas)
Index cards with fractions
Linking cubes, bingo markers, or any small items in classroom to use as toppings
Fraction Skittles (Not Skittles like you eat. Skittles are a manipulative teaching tool. See a picture here.) This material has 4 "skittles." The first one is a whole one and cannot be separated. The 2nd one is cut in half. The 3rd in thirds and the 4th in fourths.
Fraction insets (See a picture here.) These are 10 circles. The first one is not cut at all (it is a whole circle). The 2nd one is cut in halves, the 3rd in thirds, and so on all the way up to ten.
Graham Crackers
Chocolate Bars
Mini Hershey Kisses
Marshmallows

References

Contributors:

Nicole Bowling

Originator:

Ayers Institute for Learning & Innovation