Introduction to Fractions week 3

Work with Fractions continued! (Here are notes from week 1 and week 2.)

Mon - Restaurant Simulation

do Restaurant Simulation (FREE on TpT)
we used pretend bills but real restaurant menus and real coins

Tue - Coins as Fractions & Decimals

play Race to a Dollar / Race to a Hundred Dollars
FREE download from Aimee Salazar's blog post (scroll to bottom)

again we used the pretend bills, real coins, and my 10-sided dice

add Coins as Fractions & Decimals to MLB



bonus question #1: how would we add a dollar coin to this chart?
bonus question #2: how would we add a half cent to this chart?

Wed - Operations with Fractions

introduce operations with fractions: +/- (with same denominators) and x/÷ (a fraction by a whole number) using Nienhuis Montessori Fraction Activity Set 1 and the Cut-Out Labeled Fraction Circles

Thu - Convert Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers

Fractions Group 1 -
Penguin Trek (review fractions of a group) and Create Your Own Fraction Problems (adding fractions with common denominators)

Fractions Group 2 -
do Crack the Code! (multiplying fractions by a whole number, simplifying "top heavy" improper fractions to mixed numbers)

note: all three of these activities are FREE on TpT




write about what we did today in the MLB along with new wonderings

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