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Engaging Fraction Introductions: Activities & Concepts for Stage 4-5 AC Students

Explore interactive ways to introduce fractions like equal sharing, proportional reasoning, and measurement activities. Learn about top and bottom numbers, playtime options, and key ideas for effective teaching strategies.

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Engaging Fraction Introductions: Activities & Concepts for Stage 4-5 AC Students

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  1. Fractions: Stage 4 – 5AC -EA Honor Ronowicz honorr@waikato.ac.nz

  2. Introducing fractions What activities do you do when you introduce fractions to your students?

  3. Equal sharing activities • Conveys the idea of parts to a whole. Proportional reasoning activities • Its about relative size Measurement Activities • Fractions are numbers with magnitudes

  4. Measurement Activities • Use fraction tiles to measure around the class. • Measure the students feet cuts outs with Cuisenaire rods • Make gingerbread men and measure them • Emphasize that the size of the object is defined by the size of the original unit (tile,rod)

  5. Top and Bottom Numbers • What does the bottom number in a fraction tell us? • What does the top number in a fraction tell us? • The top number counts • The bottom number tells what is being counted • A shorthand symbol for how many of what? ½

  6. You have 12 jelly beans to place evenly on the cake. If you get a ¼ of the cake how many jelly beans do you get? Equal sharing activities

  7. Moving Stage 4-5 • Advanced Counters to Early Additive • Level 1- level 2 • Counters to adders

  8. Play time! • Finding Fractions • Double and half • Double somersaults • Find a fourth • Flipping fractions • Shark attack • And others

  9. Books! • The Great Divide

  10. e-ako • www.nzmaths.co.nz

  11. Proportional reasoning • Bigger and smaller activities • Balancing a see saw.

  12. The Key Ideas • Language • Relate equipment/models to symbol • Sharing measuring and proportional reasoning • Add/sub strategies link to Fractions. • Use lots of equipment. • Allow explorations, investigations and discussions. • Don’t rush to teaching rules!

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