Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, fourths, and quarters, and use the phrases half of, fourth of, and quarter of. Describe the whole as two of, or four of the shares. Understand for these examples that decomposing into more equal shares creates smaller shares.
Bring on the day’s lessons with math and English activities that get students excited about learning.
An 82-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
A worksheet for students to practice sorting objects partitioned into halves and fourths.
Ten Fraction Goal Labels for lower elementary.
This Mathematics unit addresses the concepts of understanding, identifying and creating fractions.
A 60 minute lesson in which students will solve simple word problems involving fractions.
A 60 minute lesson in which students will recognize and create halves, quarters, thirds, fifths and eighths.
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify halves and quarters.