Activity Description
Title: Exploring Fractions
Synopsis: Students will be introduced to a variety of concepts related to understanding fractions. They will work with Unit Fractions and then compare Unit Fractions with different denominators. Students move to working with fractions greater than one using concretes to explore the fractions given. Students will solve real-world problems involving fractions and as a part of the final assessment, they will write fraction problems for other students to solve.
Lead-up Skills / Preassessment: Lead-up skills are assessed to help teachers identify any missing readiness skills students may need to attempt the standards in this Activity.
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. This involves teaching the concept of a fraction; modeling with fractions, comparing fractions, working with equivalent fractions, looking at fractions as part of a set, and problem-solving with fractions.
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. There are a variety of problems for this phase of the instruction.
Final Assessment: At Grades 3-8, the Activities include test items that reflect those used on the High Stakes Tests. Fractions are in real-world situations where students would need to know how to use fractions to solve the problems. There are practice problems leading up to this. The test items are constructed to look exactly like those items students will encounter on the state test as well as being real-life fraction situations.
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