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This lesson is from the full ONE-DAY MATH professional development course at https://Reachable.Teachable.com
Search for these videos on YouTube.com and see how to use this Lesson Card:
"3a-3k Teach Multiplication Table; 2-min Drills to Multiply & Divide; Factors; Primes; ESL Adult [CC]" [connect factors and multiplication facts to fraction lessons]
"ONE-DAY MATH: Intro to Fractions, Decimals, Percentages--BEST Tricks for Tests or Teaching in USA" [Lesson 4f]
"How To Teach Division; convert 1/8 to decimal to percentage | ONE-DAY MATH [CC]" [Lesson 4g]
Lesson Card 14 (LC 14) displays fractions with a black-line diagram, and shows how to write the fractions using numerator over denominator, decimal numbers, and words. Use this card endlessly for curriculum design, and help learners see how the concepts are connected.
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Here are a few lesson examples, but you will think of more. Please share your ideas in the Comments below.
MATH: Count 1 to 12 using denominators (one third, two thirds, three thirds). Compare fractions: Sharing with more friends means each piece (or each group of items) is smaller. Color individual parts to show sums up to 12, or to subtract (12 โ 3 red โ 4 blue โ 2 green = 3 yellow). Warm up for bar graphs and number lines. To find two-fifths of 100, distribute 100 tally marks among the five bricks, then add the marks from two of the five bricks. Find equivalent fractions (two sixths = one third). Is "one-half of 1/3" the same as "one-third of 1/2"? Play games with greater than (>) / less than (<) / equal to (=). Find the least common denominator (LCD). Work with prime numbers as numerators, or as denominators. Warm up for expanding/reducing fractions, and converting fractions to decimals. Read a decimal number and match it to the fraction. Change a decimal to percent (move the decimal point) and match the percent to the fraction. Color the โthirdsโ line to show a 3-person team with 1 captain (red) and 2 regular players (blue), then color the โninthsโ line to show the captains (red) and regular players (blue) on three such teams combined. How do these proportions compare to having one captain on a team with 7, 8, or 11 regular players? What fraction (or what percent) of each team is a captain?
MATH ON THE JOB or CAREER TECH: Find a real item (wrench, board, pipe) that measures 3/8 and compare to similar items that measure 1/4 or 1/2.
MUSIC: One whole note in 4/4 time = 3/8 [dotted quarter note] + 1/8 + 1/4 + 3/12 [triplet].
ART: Use the chart to keep track as you mix combinations of black and white, or primary colors, by โpartsโ [10 parts black: 0 parts white, and all shades down to 0 black:10 white OR twefths down to halves-- 1 part yellow:11 parts blue, down to 1 yellow:1 blue]
ENGLISH: The text at bottom explains equivalent fractions. Use this text to to practice irregular forms (two/half/halves), the silent "l" (half/halves), changing "v" to "f" (five/fifth), odd spellings (eighth), โzโ and โsโ sounds (thirds, fourths), and pronouncing difficult letter combinations (fifths, sixths, elevenths, twelfths).
Print this .pdf onto yellow cardstock to match Lesson Card 14 from ONE-DAY MATH.
Laminate for repeated use, wall poster, or place mat.
Print onto white paper if you want students to color the fractions: Color line by line, or use blue to color all sections that equal 1/4.
Print 2 per page (reduce to 50% when printing) for smaller handout.
Display on screen to enlarge the image for visually impaired students.
Related items: Lesson Card 13: Fractions, Decimals, Percents (includes Aliquot Parts)
AUDIO LECTURE explaining both LC 13 and LC14: 4f-FracDecPerIntro-654.mp3
For these and other Lesson Cards and audio lectures about FRACTIONS, DECIMALS, and PERCENTS, enroll in Part 4 of ONE-DAY MATH: https://reachable.teachable.com
