B1.9: Describe relationships and show equivalences among fractions and…

Fair Shares: Fractions and Decimals Grades 3–4

Is half always the same size? Where does three-quarters stand? Why is 3/4 + 2/4 not 5/8? Who jumped further, 1.4 m or 1.35 m? Four hands-on lessons where students fold, stand on a giant number line, measure recipes and measure their own jumps to make sense of fractions and decimals.

• Who jumped further, 1.4 m or 1.35 m? 50–60 min

  Students do standing long jumps, measure them to the centimetre and write them as decimals of a metre, then settle an argument: is 1.35 m further than 1.4 m because 35 is bigger than 4? Students explain tenths and hundredths with a metre stick, write them as fractions and decimals, and compare decimals correctly.

Printable practice for B1.9

• Fair Shares: Fractions and Decimals workbook included with the unit

  1 word wall, 1 English-support page, 1 practice page, 1 reading, 1 unit review, 1 unit test, with answer keys.

• Grade 4 Ontario Math: Number printable pack

  3 practice pages, 2 assessments, with answer keys. Free sample.

• Grade 5 Ontario Math: Number printable pack

  2 assessments, 1 practice page, with answer keys. Free sample.

• Grade 4 Common Core Math: Patterns and Algebraic Thinking printable pack

  1 practice page, 1 assessment, with answer keys. Free sample.

• Grade 4 Common Core Math: Number and Operations printable pack

  2 practice pages, 2 assessments, with answer keys. Free sample.

• Grade 5 Common Core Math: Number and Operations printable pack

  2 assessments, 1 practice page, with answer keys. Free sample.

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