Most 3rd graders should live able to guild numbers actually well--putting a handful of numbers inwards to the lowest degree to greatest or greatest to least, only they may take away a picayune chip of do amongst fractions. Actually, fifty-fifty some older flat students cope amongst fractions.
This is hands-on... Have the kids create fraction strips to larn almost how to guild fractions. Yes, do non gear upwards anything else other than strips of newspaper (but they all get got to live the same length). Have the kids plough the strips into halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, eights, nineths ( as well as mayhap twelvths as well as eighteenths if you lot want) yesteryear alone folding. I advise you lot accept each fraction i at a time.
Into halves.
That i should live easy, only notwithstanding you lot should inquire a pupil how they did it. How did they know it was half?
Then thirds.
Was this tricky? What makes it difficult?
Fourths.
My 2d grader did it the fastest means amongst folding inwards one-half as well as thus inwards one-half i time again although my 5th grader brought both ends to the center, thus folded each side, as well as folded the middle last. How do your students do it?
Sixths.
Is it hard? How did you lot do it? (They volition respect out--or they mightiness already know that they flexure the thirds inwards half)
Eights.
Was this similar to whatever other way? Maybe similar the fourths?
Just to run across if I could do it--I made a strip into fifths. If some students desire to eyeball it, they can. I folded the newspaper thus the 2 sides looked or thus the same every bit the interior section, thus finished the other 2 folds.
Here are the fractions strips!
Do you lot do this type of activity inwards your class?
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