Math Amongst Guild (O Inward The A-Z Challenge)--Making Fraction Strips!

I know, I get got been skipping my MaTh activity Th due to the Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 to Z challenge, only I'm dorsum for today amongst a focus on 3rd flat (hip, hip, hooray)!  Add your link at the cease if it applies to 3rd grade.

So, my O post service for today volition live almost ordering (no, non ordering pizza--ordering numbers) 3.NF.A.2 as well as 3.NF.A.3

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!

Just doing this activity your students volition get got a ameliorate feel of how big fractions are as well as some of their equivalents 4/8 is the same every bit 2/4 as well as 1/2.  Seeing a slice of newspaper amongst fraction bars on it isn't every bit memorable every bit making the strips yourself.  You could select to extend this activity to get got the students solve/answer questions amongst them.

Do you lot do this type of activity inwards your class?

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