Paper Fractions
Teacher Name Daphne Yoner Date March 2, 2021
Subject Area Mathematics Grade Grade 3/4
Topic Fractions Time ~1 hour
➢ How can we use fractions in our everyday lives?
Inquiry
Question:
GLO: Developing Number Sense
SLO: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of fractions by: • explaining that a fraction represents a
GLO(s) & SLO(s) part of a whole • describing situations in which fractions are used • comparing fractions of the
same whole that have like denominators
Learning Students will:
Objectives - Fold paper to make different types of fractions.
What do you want your
students to learn?
Assessment Formative: Class Discussion and Observation
How will you know your
students have learned?
Materials https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/14214555053297080/, Paper strips, Paper, Glue, Whiteboards,
What resources will you
Presentation.
need?
Lesson Description Time
- Number Talk: I will write on the board a question for the students to
solve. The question will say “I have two pizzas, I give Jimmy an eighth
(⅛)of the pizza and give Jen a quarter (¼) of the pizza. Who got more
pizza?”. I will do this as a number talk so the students have to think
~10
Introduction quietly how to solve the question, and show their thinking on a piece of
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paper. Then after a couple minutes I will ask for all the answers they
came up with and how. Then we will look at all of them and eliminate
the ones that do not work. To begin no student is wrong, all answers are
accepted.
- Activity: I will give each student a piece of white paper, at the top of that
paper the student must write “Paper Folding Fractions”. Each student
will then receive 5 strips of different colored construction paper. I will
have 5 rectangles on the board that resemble their strips of paper. I will
then ask the students what one whole piece of paper would represent
as a fraction? Then I will fill in my first rectangle on the board as whole =
1. Then I will ask the students what a half would look like from that
whole piece of paper? Then I will draw that fold on the second rectangle
on the board. Then I will tell the students to fold a different piece of
paper in half and use a dark color to draw over the fold, and write ½ on
each section of the paper. This process will be repeated for folding the
~45
Body paper in ⅓, ¼ and ⅕. In the end the students should have 5 strips of
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paper and 4 of them will be folded and filled in. Then the students will
glue the very edges of the strips of construction paper pieces to the
white piece of paper (in portrait view) they started with, this will allow
the students to move the pieces to see with folds since they will not be
fully glued on. We will keep this for a later activity and to make
reference too. (~25 minutes)
- Game: Then for the remainder of the class I will have each student get a
whiteboard and a whiteboard marker to answer questions from my
powerpoint. The powerpoint will contain shapes with different fractions
represented, the students will have to write the fraction on the
whiteboard and they will get a point if they are correct. (~20 minutes)
- I will get the students to make up a fraction on their whiteboard and ~5
Closure
draw a shape that matches that fraction. minutes
Reflection
