The greatest fraction wins! This was a fun activity that my third graders did to practice comparing fractions. We did this after we covered same numerator comparisons and same denominator comparisons. 🖤 Students were broken up into groups and given a fraction. 🖤 They used their whiteboards to represent their fraction in multiple ways. 🖤 They also used the precut circles and strips on the board to represent their fraction. This is what they used to compare their fraction to another group’s ...
Played a fun game with my kids today to make a review a little more interesting. Here’s how it worked: 🖤 I partnered students up and gave everyone the review (6 questions). 🖤 I put different post-its on the board and drew either a heart, smiley, triangle, or star on each one. 🖤 Each post-it was worth a mystery amount of points based on either the color or symbol. Students wouldn’t know until the very end what was worth what. It was super interesting watching them strategize. Some chose to va...