Fourth Grade Fraction Workshop
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Fourth Grade Fraction Workshop
ObjectiveTeachers will have a deeper understanding of the Fraction Domain of the Common Core. They will demonstrate their understanding through their struggle of working through the given activities and through the use of precise language when sharing their thinking.
What is a Fraction?
It is a Number!!!
Fractions is taught by doing not by telling.
Fractions is more than just a part of the whole.
Activity 1Discuss
Two important aspects about Fractions
Specifying the Whole
Explaining what is meant by equal parts
Congruent figures have the same area.
The Focus is Area and not the Shape
What fraction is represented by the
following shaded area?
National Library of Virtual ManipulativesFractions Visualizing
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/category_g_2_t_1.html
The Fat InchDirections
ComparisonSame Numerator
Same Denominator
Compare to a benchmark
Counting with unit Fraction
The Number Line(Area to Length)
Counting and Decomposing
Equivalent Fractions
Equivalence by Subdividing the area
1 2 3
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2
3
4
1 2 3
Addition
Teaching Addition
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Closing ActivityHighlight
In Blue what you are sure of
In Yellow what you still have questions
In Red what you do not understand