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Equivalent Fractions - Cookie Jar Sorting Activity

PDF | 6 pages | Grades: 3 - 5

A small group or whole-class activity to consolidate students' understanding of equivalent fractions.

Use this teaching resource to help your students identify equivalent fractions.

Print the six cookie jars (1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, and 1/8) and the cookies on cardstock. Then, cut out the cookies and store them with the jars in a resealable bag.

Students sort the cookies into the correct cookie jars according to equivalency.

This resource can also be used as a guided math activity or as a math center activity.

Curriculum

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NF.A.3

Explain equivalence of fractions in special cases, and compare fractions by reasoning about their size.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NF.A.3.A

Understand two fractions as equivalent (equal) if they are the same size, or the same point on a number line.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NF.A.3.B

Recognize and generate simple equivalent fractions, e.g., 1/2 = 2/4, 4/6 = 2/3. Explain why the fractions are equivalent, e.g., by using a visual fraction model.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NF.A.3.D

Compare two fractions with the same numerator or the same denominator by reasoning about their size. Recognize that comparisons are valid only when the two fractions refer to the same whole. Record the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, or...
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.A.1

Explain why a fraction a/b is equivalent to a fraction (n × a)/(n × b) by using visual fraction models, with attention to how the number and size of the parts differ even though the two fractions themselves are the same size. Use this principle to ...
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.A.2

Compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators, e.g., by creating common denominators or numerators, or by comparing to a benchmark fraction such as 1/2. Recognize that comparisons are valid only when the two fractions ref...

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