Activity Description
Title: EQUIVALENT FRACTIONS
Synopsis: This activity would occur early in a Unit on working with Fractions, but students will use it several times through the year. Students will work with fractions having unlike denominators and be able to add and subtract the problems by finding common denominators. NOTE: rather than naked fraction problems, students should work with word problems. Fractions make sense only when used in the context of a real work situation. If reteaching or remediation is needed, use the problems contained in the adopted Math text. This activity may take 4-5 days for students to understand using a variety of contexts for the fractions.
Lead-up Skills / Preassessment: Lead-up skills are listed to help teachers identify any missing readiness skills students may need to attempt the standards in this Activity. The sample preassessment contains word problems with fractions.
Anchor Problem: at least one is provided for the chunk of standards; this should be posted and referred to during the instruction associated with those standards.
Direct Instruction: Suggested teaching strategies are given that model for students what they need to do to begin their journey toward mastery. These strategies include sample problems to guide authentic practice, requiring students to demonstrate they can construct meaning for themselves. The fraction problems are embedded in real-world situations so students can see that they use fractions regularly - - note: mixed numbers are also involved.
Problems for Practice: Standards-based problems are provided to use for different parts of the instruction, including on the practice work and assessments. These problems require students to document that they have internalized the core ideas of the standard(s) and can show independent mastery.
Final Assessment: At Grades 3-8, the Activities include test items that reflect those used on the High Stakes Tests. There are practice problems leading up to this. The test items are constructed to look exactly like those items students will encounter on their High-Stakes Tests.
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