FOURTH GRADE FRACTIONS PROJECT
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What educators are saying
My students loved building the pizzas. I loved the differentiation between the different versions and the skills asked about fractions. This was a great review activity about all fractions.
This was a fun way to end our fractions unit. My students LOVED it! I will use this again for years to come.
Description
Engage your students in adding fractions with like denominators; the decomposition of fractions through "ordering" and assembling pizzas! This activity is friendly for the whole class, rigorous, and a great hands-on way to assess your students' readiness to advance to more complex addition and subtraction of fractions.
PRODUCT INCLUDES:
- 4 sets of dice with rigorous, test-like decomposition questions
- Pizza Template
- Pizza Toppings (Pineapple, Olives, Peppers and Pepperoni)
- Partitioned Tape Diagram Scaffold
- Order Form
- Answer Keys
YOU WILL ALSO NEED:
- Red color for the sauce
- Yellow masking tape, or another material of your choice to represent cheese
CLARIFICATION:
This activity was designed to incorporate questions similar to those students will see on standardized testing, which are not all about pizza. They've been based directly from published test questions. Samples of these questions can be seen in the photograph in the preview of the die. This is not a lesson solely about pizzas, but rather engages students in answering and being assessed on test like questions with the final step being making a pizza. Students will use the decomposed equations from these questions to find sums. Next, they use the sums from the equations to determine the fraction of each pizza topping needed on their pizza.
PRODUCT INCLUDES:
- 4 sets of dice with rigorous, test-like decomposition questions
- Pizza Template
- Pizza Toppings (Pineapple, Olives, Peppers and Pepperoni)
- Partitioned Tape Diagram Scaffold
- Order Form
- Answer Keys
YOU WILL ALSO NEED:
- Red color for the sauce
- Yellow masking tape, or another material of your choice to represent cheese
CLARIFICATION:
This activity was designed to incorporate questions similar to those students will see on standardized testing, which are not all about pizza. They've been based directly from published test questions. Samples of these questions can be seen in the photograph in the preview of the die. This is not a lesson solely about pizzas, but rather engages students in answering and being assessed on test like questions with the final step being making a pizza. Students will use the decomposed equations from these questions to find sums. Next, they use the sums from the equations to determine the fraction of each pizza topping needed on their pizza.
Total Pages
14 pages
Answer Key
Included
Teaching Duration
1 hour
Last updated Feb 4th, 2018
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSS4.NF.B.3
Understand a fraction 𝘢/𝘣 with 𝘢 > 1 as a sum of fractions 1/𝘣.
CCSS4.NF.B.3a
Understand addition and subtraction of fractions as joining and separating parts referring to the same whole.
CCSS4.NF.B.3b
Decompose a fraction into a sum of fractions with the same denominator in more than one way, recording each decomposition by an equation. Justify decompositions, e.g., by using a visual fraction model. Examples: 3/8 = 1/8 + 1/8 + 1/8; 3/8 = 1/8 + 2/8; 2 1/8 = 1 + 1 + 1/8 = 8/8 + 8/8 + 1/8.
CCSS4.NF.B.3c
Add and subtract mixed numbers with like denominators, e.g., by replacing each mixed number with an equivalent fraction, and/or by using properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
CCSS4.NF.B.3d
Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions referring to the same whole and having like denominators, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem.
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