This let's compare fractions activity is a card game for 3rd to 5th grade where students compare fractions with bar models and record each match. Answer key included.
This Decimal Campout activity has 4th and 5th Grade students match models, fractions and decimals with denominators of 10 and 100. Answer key included.
This equivalent fractions 10 100 denominators activity is a frog board game for 4th and 5th grade with 24 fraction cards for renaming and adding tenths and hundredths. A practice page and answer key are included.
This pizza for all equal parts fractions activity has 1st and 2nd grade students cut pizzas into halves, thirds, and fourths to win reward cards. Answer key included.
The Frac Smack fractions activity is a fast card game for 2nd and 3rd grade where kids spot halves, thirds and fourths on shapes. Answer key included for quick checking.
This frosting and fractions activity has 4th-5th grade students read bakery line plots in quarter cups and add and subtract fractions to solve 16 problem cards. Answer key included.
This Happy Birthday Fractions activity has 4th and 5th Grade students multiply fractions by whole numbers and match party hats to presents. Answer key included.
Will you be my equivalent valentine fractions activity: 4th and 5th grade students match heart fraction cards to problem strips with bar models. Answer key included for fast checking.
This fraction action fractions activity has 1st-3rd grade students match unit fractions from one half to one tenth as pictures, numbers and words. Practice page and answer key included.
This 3.NF.2 common core activity has 3rd and 4th Grade students match number lines to fractions, then practice on a worksheet. Answer key included for quick checking.
In this 3.NF.2 Common Core Activity, students add fractions and mixed numbers with common denominators.
Children sort shape picture cards under one half, one third, one fourth, one sixth, one eighth or not equal in this 1st to 3rd grade fraction game. Recording sheet, practice page and answer key included.
Students match shape cards to fraction cards in this make it equal partitioning shapes activity for 2nd-3rd Grade, with a practice page and answer key included to build fraction sense.
In this number line fractions activity, 3rd and 4th Grade students match number lines to fractions and find equal fractions, with an answer key included.
Using this Sharing Chocolate Rows and Columns Activity, students partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size squares and count to find the total number of them.
Using thisMaking Equal Parts Fractions Activity, students cut shapes into small parts and then describe them as halves, fourths, or quarters.
In this they're equal equivalent fractions activity, 3rd-5th grade students match pizza fraction models to equal fractions and record each pair. Answer key included for easy checking.
Using this Frac-Man Fractions Activity, students solve fraction problems to help feed Frac-Man and/or Mrs. Frac-Man.
In this 5.NF.6 Common Core Activity, students solve real world problems involving multiplication of fractions and mixed numbers.
Equal parts, big ideas
Fractions start with sharing fairly. In 1st and 2nd grade, kids split shapes into halves, thirds and fourths and learn that the parts must be equal. Third graders discover that fractions are numbers with their own spot on a number line, and that 1/2 = 2/4. In 4th grade they find equivalent fractions, compare fractions with different denominators, add and subtract like fractions and mixed numbers, and connect tenths to decimals. Fifth graders add and subtract unlike fractions and begin multiplying them. The click is when a child realizes that a bigger bottom number means smaller pieces, so 1/8 < 1/4.
Fractions confuse kids when they're only symbols. These moves make them real first.
Give each child paper strips and have them fold one into halves, one into fourths and one into eighths. They shade the same amount on each and line them up. Seeing that 1/2, 2/4 and 4/8 cover the same length beats any rule about multiplying top and bottom.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
Try it withPartitioning Shapes WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Draw a number line from 0 to 1 and ask kids where 1/4 lives, then 3/4, then 1/2. Next stretch it to 2 and place 5/4. The number line is what turns fractions from pieces of pizza into real numbers.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withFractions on a Number Line WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Write 3/8 and 3/5 and ask kids to decide which is bigger without any math, just reasoning. Someone always says, "Fifths are bigger pieces, so three of them is more!" Kids who explain their thinking catch their own misconceptions.
Why it works: when kids say the precise math words, their understanding gets sharper, a recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withLet's Compare Fractions ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Fractions are everywhere in the kitchen, on the field and at snack time.
WorksheetsEach player flips two cards to make a fraction. The bigger fraction wins both. Ties mean a showdown!
Open Comparing Fractions Worksheet →
WorksheetsKids hunt for fractions that are secretly the same, like 2/3 and 4/6, and pair them up.
Open Equivalent Fractions Worksheet - Write →
WorksheetsMeasure pencils, crayons and erasers to the nearest quarter or eighth inch and record the fraction.
Open Measurement Fractions of Inches Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Let's Compare Fractions Activity, Decimal Campout Activity and Equivalent Fractions 10 100 Denominators Activity.
Kids split shapes into halves and fourths in 1st and 2nd grade. Third grade is the big fraction year, with number lines and equivalent fractions. Fourth and fifth graders add, subtract and multiply fractions and connect them to decimals.
The bottom number tells how many equal parts the whole is cut into. The top number tells how many of those parts you have. So 3/4 means the whole is cut into 4 equal parts and you have 3.
Because 8 is bigger than 4! Show them that cutting a pizza into 8 slices makes each slice smaller than cutting it into 4. Folding paper strips makes this click quickly.
Multiply or divide the top and bottom by the same number. For example, 1/2 × 2/2 = 2/4. Kids understand this best after they've seen it with folded paper or fraction strips.
Cook together and talk about half a cup or a quarter teaspoon, cut sandwiches into equal parts, or share a bag of snacks fairly. Ask, "What fraction did you get?"
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