Happy Sunday, Everyone! I woke up to a big surprise--my Skittles "Freebie" was featured in the TpT newsletter! It has already had over 6,000 hits today! Crazy! Today I want to share an activity that I did last week that I feel was a great review of equivalent fractions AND a great opportunity for students to practice their problem solving and their mathematical language. Here's ... Read the Post
Fractions Day 11: Where’d You Get THAT Number Line?
Hello everyone--and thanks for coming back for more fraction adventures! Today's post is really a combination of classroom "happenings"; I don't know if you've noticed, but sometimes something I plan as a quick warm up turns into something just a teeeeeny bit more involved! Fraction Number Lines That was the case with my warm up the other day. It seemed simple enough. Note: I purposely did NOT ... Read the Post
Fractions Day 10: Using Stations to Build Equivalent Fractions
Equivalent Fraction Warm Up I thought I would catch all of your fraction fans up on what we did in fourth grade on Friday. I have been concerned that my students aren't all quite understanding what equivalent fractions are, so I started them off by asking them to review what the word "equivalent" means and then we got to work. I explained to them that they would be moving through 5 different ... Read the Post
Fractions Day 9: Comparing and Sequencing Fractions
Today was a "test" day in fourth grade--a test for me to see where my students are with fractions. I started by giving them an "entrance" slip that just asked them a few basics, and then asked them to respond to the following prompt in their math journals: "Can a fraction ever have more than one name? Explain your thinking." In my head, I needed the following activity to "take the temperature" ... Read the Post
Fractions Day 8: Have Your Cake and Eat it Too? Fraction Misconceptions
Well. . . another day in the fraction trenches for the fourth graders in the Studio--that's for sure! We had a late start today for icy roads, so I thought to myself, "Let's do a quick warm up discussion then get back into those fractions of sets that we struggled with on Friday." Mmmmhmmmm . . . quick. Riiiiiight. Math Misconceptions Here's how today's discussion unfolded. ... Read the Post
Fractions Day 7: When a “whole” isn’t a “whole”!
I promised another entry in FractionFest 2013 (though a Twitter follower renamed it "Fractionpalooza" which I L-O-V-E!) so here goes . . . It is super important to remember that fractions come in all shapes and sizes, so I keep bringing my students back to the idea that--like decimals--fractions are numbers that let us talk about pieces of numbers! Next week we will be really digging into ... Read the Post
Fractions Day 6: Logic, Pizza, and Critiquing Reasoning
Seriously, we are starting to get into some pretty heavy duty thinking in the Teacher Studio! I wish I had a video camera to capture some of the amazing moments! I'm going to try to paint of picture of how things unfolded today. Sit back--I am still in awe over one of my mathematician's understandings. Like--jaw dropping awe. . . and it takes a lot to impress ... Read the Post
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