Writing Fractions

Objective: Students will learn to understand and represent 1/2, 1/3, 1/4.

Materials: fraction circles from previous lesson, fraction manipulative.

Manipulative Activity:

1. Students rotate the fraction circles to show 1/2.
2. Students assemble their fractions manipulative to represent the fractional parts.
3. Students rotate the fraction circles to show 1/4.
4. Students assemble their fractions manipulative to represent the fractional parts.
5. Students rotate the fraction circles to show 1/3.
6. Students assemble their fractions manipulative to represent the fractional parts.

Technology Activity: Students will use the applet, Parts of a Whole, from the National Library of Virtual Mathematics Manipulatives. Depending on the availability of computers for your students, this activity could be done individually, with partners, in groups, or as a class.

Have students go to Fractions.

Paper/Pencil Activity: Depending on the level of your students, you can have them complete this activity individually or with assistance:

• Provide a worksheet on fractions for matching with their illustrations.

Literature Connections:

The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Fractions Book
Jerry Pallotta (Cartwheel Books, 1999)