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- Estimating Rational Numbers
- Students round fractions and mixed numbers to their closest whole number by first changing the rational numbers into decimal numbers.
- Author: Doreen Castelloe
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
- Fraction Funnies
- Students complete a fraction exercise in which they are given clues to find the answer to a joke, and then make up their own "Fraction Funny" sheet using their own jokes (riddles) and clues.
- Author: Alisan Royster
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
- Fraction/Decimal War
- This lesson plan introduces a game that will reinforce fractions and decimals. This activity is best played in groups of 3-4. You may choose to use as an activity when work is completed or as a center activity.
- Author: Christine Sisco
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
- Introduction to Spreadsheets
- In this two-week unit the students will use a teacher made spreadsheet to learn how calculations work. Then student teams will work together to create their own "store" order form on a spreadsheet. The final part of the lesson is a simulated game show where students "shop" at each others stores, trying to spend an exact amount of money without going over, getting closer to their required amount than any other team.
- Author: Christine Weaver
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
- Taxes
- Students earn classroom dollars, set up a bank book, pay fines, figure interest and pay taxes.
- Author: Cecelia Zimerle
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
- Another look at the set model using attribute pieces
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students work with sets in which the objects look different based on the idea that objects in the set are not the same size and shape. Students also use fractions to describe a set of attribute pieces.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- A brownie bake
- This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, focuses on student organization, preparation, and presentation of some simple foods as a way to apply various mathematical concepts, with problem-solving techniques being a central theme.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Class attributes
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students create their own classroom survey or use the reproducible classroom Survey handout to study the class and describe the set (class) in fractional parts.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Communicating about mathematics using games
- This e-example from Illuminations contains an interactive version of a game that can be used in the grades 3-5 classroom to support students' learning about fractions.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Describing Designs
- Students create designs and describe them to classmates using fractional and geometric terms.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–4)
- Eggsactly with a dozen eggs
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students are given the opportunity to examine fractions as part of a set.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–4)
- Eggsactly with eighteen eggs
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students continue to examine fractions as part of a set.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Expanding our pattern block fraction repertoire
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students expand the number of fractions they can represent with pattern blocks by increasing the whole.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Exploring the value of the whole
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students consider the size or value of the same fraction when different “wholes” are compared. This lesson promotes problem-solving and reasoning as the students compare similar fractions.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- The factor game
- In this Illuminations lesson, students play the Factor Game, which engages students in a friendly contest where strategies involve distinguishing between numbers with many factors and numbers with few factors.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–8)
- Fun with fractions set model: Looking back and moving forward
- This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, gives students another opportunity to explore fractions using the set model.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Fun with fractions: Looking back and moving forward
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students use a fraction applet to construct various fractions when given the fraction in standard form.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Investigating equivalent fractions with relationship rods
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students investigate the length model by working with relationship rods to find equivalent fractions.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–4)
- Investigating fraction relationships with relationship rods
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students use relationship rods, which are wooden or plastic rods in ten different colors, to explore fraction relationships.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–4)
- Investigating fractions with pattern blocks
- This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, promotes problem-solving and reasoning with fractions as students investigate the relationships between various parts and wholes.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)