Mega-fun Fractions 50 Hands-on Activities and Games That Help Kids Really Get It!
by Lee, Martin; Miller, MarciaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-08-01
Publisher(s): Teaching Resources
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Summary
Looking for a way to help your students develop a solid understanding of fractions? Here are 50 fun and engaging activities that invite kids to explore fractions in a variety of meaningful ways. They'll apply fraction concepts to solve puzzles, play games, analyze data, create a class quilt, and so much more. Each activity is designed to meet the NCTM standards and boost kids' interest in fractions! Book jacket.
Author Biography
Martin Lee and Marcia Miller, authors of Great Graphing, Funtastic Math! and other top-selling titles, have written another exciting, problem-packed math resource for teachers of grades 4-8: 5-Minute Math Problem of the Day.
Table of Contents
| About This Book | p. 5 |
| Skills Matrix | p. 6 |
| Fraction Activities | |
| Halfness (Using visual estimation to determine half) | p. 7 |
| Fill All Four (Playing a spatial reasoning game using pattern blocks) | p. 9 |
| What's in Petal, Mississippi? (Identifying fractions of regions to solve a riddle) | p. 9 |
| What's Left? (Using visual estimation to identify fractions) | p. 10 |
| Fractions up a Tree (Using visual and spatial estimation to draw fractions) | p. 10 |
| Colorful Regions (Drawing dot-paper regions for given fractions) | p. 15 |
| Fraction Chart Puzzle (Assembling a schematic chart to represent fractions) | p. 16 |
| Part Art (Applying fractions to geometric designs on grid paper) | p. 18 |
| Collaborative Quilts (Applying fraction concepts to create a class quilt) | p. 19 |
| Pattern Block Proofs (Exploring equivalent fractions with pattern blocks) | p. 20 |
| Shaded Shapes (Shading equivalent fractions on grid paper) | p. 23 |
| Stand Up for Fractions (Applying fraction concepts to describe parts of the class) | p. 25 |
| Class Fraction Wall (Using fraction concepts in an ongoing, interactive bulletin board) | p. 26 |
| Picture These Fractions (Applying fraction concepts to describe groups shown in photos) | p. 27 |
| Mixing Snack Mix (Using hands-on fractions to create "snack mixes") | p. 28 |
| Fraction Message (Finding fractions of words to solve a riddle) | p. 28 |
| The Language of Fractions (Completing sentences with fraction terms) | p. 28 |
| Fraction Dictation (Writing fractions and mixed numbers said aloud) | p. 32 |
| Fractions and Egg Cartons (Using empty egg cartons to model equivalent fractions) | p. 33 |
| Badge Buddies (Identifying equivalent fractions in a class game) | p. 34 |
| Equivalent Fraction Concentration (Matching equivalent fractions in a card game format) | p. 35 |
| Fractions Bingo--Times Two (Playing Bingo games with equivalent fractions and mixed numbers) | p. 36 |
| Fraction Poems (Reinforcing fraction concepts through poems) | p. 39 |
| Sharing Fraction Pie (Cutting clay "pies" to compare fractions) | p. 41 |
| Fraction Fill 'Em Up (Exploring hands-on fractions to compare unlike denominators) | p. 42 |
| Prove It! (Presenting a "legal argument" to prove fraction relationships) | p. 43 |
| Fraction War (Playing a card game to compare fractions) | p. 44 |
| Fraction Rollers, Part 1 (Playing a logic game to form the greatest and least fractions) | p. 45 |
| That's an Order! (Playing a game that involves comparing and ordering fractions) | p. 46 |
| Fractions of a Day (Making a circle graph based on fractions of a day) | p. 47 |
| Time for Fractions (Using fractions to express lengths of time) | p. 50 |
| Coining Fractions (Using fractions to express money amounts) | p. 51 |
| Funny Money (Solving problems that involve fractions of a set of coins) | p. 52 |
| Fractions and Ages (Using fractions and mixed numbers to express ages) | p. 53 |
| Fraction Rollers, Part 2 (Playing a logic game to form the greatest and least mixed numbers) | p. 54 |
| Noting Fractions (Expressing fractions in the form of standard musical notation) | p. 55 |
| A Head for Fractions (Using mental math to add (or subtract) fractions) | p. 57 |
| Fractions in Ancient Egypt (Exploring the fraction notation used in ancient Egypt) | p. 58 |
| Flicker Fraction Sums (Playing a board game that involves adding fractions) | p. 60 |
| Fraction Add-Up (Applying logical reasoning to find fraction sums and differences) | p. 63 |
| Sums on a Roll (Playing a game involving adding, comparing, and ordering fractions) | p. 65 |
| Fraction Path Puzzles (Using logic to add and subtract fractions) | p. 66 |
| Fraction Magic Figures (Using logical reasoning to solve fraction puzzles) | p. 68 |
| Parts of Parts (Exploring the concept of multiplying fractions on grid paper) | p. 70 |
| Roll, Round, and Record (Playing a game that involves multiplying fractions and rounding products) | p. 72 |
| Fractions and Calories (Using fraction concepts to interpret data in calorie and exercise charts) | p. 74 |
| Fraction Stories (Writing original story problems to be solved using fraction concepts) | p. 76 |
| Fraction Scavenger Hunt (Estimating and measuring to find items in fractional lengths) | p. 77 |
| Only One-Third Agreed That... (Applying fraction concepts in order to analyze a survey) | p. 79 |
| Fractions Every Day (Investigating everyday uses of fractions) | p. 80 |
| Fraction Quickies | p. 81 |
| Reproducibles | p. 84 |
| Answer Key | p. 93 |
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