Real World Fractions

Prior Knowledge:

• How do we know if a fraction is a whole?
• Less than a whole?
• More than a whole?
• What is a real-world example of fractions?

Engage: Brain pop (stop the video at 1:37)

• Tell students that they are going to be chefs! To be a chef, you have to understand fractions!

Direct Instruction:

• AVID 2 column notes (4 examples)

Guided Practice:

• We are going to be chefs today! 
• Look at recipe examples (2 examples)
• Use addition and subtraction
• How will we know when we add?
• How will we know when we subtract? 

Individual practice:

• Recipe cards and shopping list cards
  • Recipe cards are differentiated and sorted based on success with concepts.
  • These can be printed (face to face) or given virtually.

Closure:

• Flip Grid
• Explain the steps for adding and subtracting fractions
• Comment on another flip with feedback. (Sentence starters provided).

Differentiation: Pull students struggling to a small group. Ask them to show one as a fraction in many ways (ex. 3/3, 16/16, 2/2). Use this information to identify fractions greater than one and less than one. Look at the relationships between the numerators and the denominators.

Extension: Give students notecards with several examples of expressions involving products/sums/differences as fractions greater than or less than one. Have students categorize these notecards according to their own criteria. Students may decide to group them based on solution types or by operations. This promotes discovery-based learning and pattern-recognition to organize thinking about fractions.

You can check  independent practice assignments as well as their Flipgrid.