What Kind of English Language Arts Concepts Are Suited to Teaching Fractions in 5th Grade?

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Starting off with this super cute comic by Jeff Keane. What a slap-up way to start a fraction lesson, accept a word with your students about what is happening in this comic.

The Fraction Boogie

This is a great manner to become your students upwardly and moving.

Each student volition need 1 piece of newspaper. Students place the piece of paper out as a 'whole slice'. The teacher plays some fun dancing music then that the students can dance along on their piece of paper. When the music stops, the students must pick upward their piece of paper and fold it in half. They then start dancing on half of the newspaper. Again, the music stops and they fold the piece of newspaper and so that they are dancing on only one quarter. Finally, they fold the newspaper and then that they are only dancing on ane eighth of the paper.

An activeness kids will beloved doing! They can then unfold their piece of paper to see the folds in the paper. A great discussion can take identify after this game nigh the different fractions they created during this action.

Brand Fraction Teams

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Provide each student with a fraction card. Explain to the students that they must find their 'fraction team', that is, they must gather in a group with all the other students that have a fraction equivalent to the one on their card. Once they have found all the members of their fraction squad, they must sit down.

The first fraction team to find all of their correct members is the winner!

Equivalent Fractions Cards

Create a Motion picture or Pattern using Fractions

Use our Fraction Wheels or create your own using colored paper.

Encourage students to create a blueprint with quarters and eighths of a circle. Alternatively, have them create a picture of an object using what ever part of the fraction wheels they want, then work out the total of all the parts.

Fraction Flowers

Inspired past Teach Beside Me these fraction flowers are a fun hands on action that will assist reinforce the concept of fractions.

Use our Fraction wheels to stick on newspaper plates to create each of the flowers. I printed the fraction wheels two to folio and the size was perfect for the paper plates. Mix all the fractions up and have students put the fraction flowers back together.

Fraction Cookie Jar Sorting

This equivalent fractions sorting activity is a bully small group or whole-class action to consolidate students' understanding of equivalent fractions.

Print and laminate the half dozen cookie jars and the cookies. Provide each educatee with a cookie. As a class, sort the cookies into the correct cookie jars, according to equivalence.

I Take, Who Has? Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Game

Play this I Have, Who Has? Fractions Game as a whole-class to consolidate students' understanding of fraction, decimal and pct equivalence.

Fraction Frenzy Lath Game

Play this Fraction Frenzy Board Game with your students to consolidate their understanding of adding and subtracting fractions.

Fractions BINGO!

Play this Pizza Fraction Bingo to help consolidate your students' agreement of halves, thirds, quarters and fifths. 32 cards are available then this tin exist played as a whole class or in a small group.

Create a Fractions Flip Book

Create this Fractions Flip Book with your students. You can create a larger version if you download and impress this template in A3. The book includes wholes, halves, thirds, quarters, fifths and eighths.

Fraction Carte Game

A great game where students create and compare fractions. All-time played in pairs. For more data on how to play this card game and other great card games in the classroom, cheque out our web log – Nine Nifty Means to use a Pack of Cards in the Classroom.

Mystic Rose Art Work

Have your students create a mystic rose. A fun style to explore fractions around a circle past using a compass to measure the fraction out.

Other Fraction Instruction Resources

Unit Plans and Resources

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