Description
What Will I Learn?
- Creativity
- Critical thinking
About Course
Examine math models, and find the fraction for each piece. Make a shape made out of smaller equal size pieces.
Next Generation Standards Covered
CCSS.Math.Content.3.G.A.2 Partition shapes into parts with equal areas. Express the area of each part as a unit fraction of the whole. For example, partition a shape into four parts with equal areas, and describe the area of each part as 1/4 of the area of the shape.
Guiding ideas
- The Big Idea. “Fractions can be made out of large shapes that are made out of smaller shapes”
Debrief Questions
- The teacher will facilitate a discussion around the peer review questions.
Student activities
- Students will teleport to the Exhibition Area where they will be given a camera and portfolio. The students will look at math models and find the fraction of each piece
- Students will be teleported to the Stage and will be given either four sets of six blocks or six sets of four. They will use the blocks and build a structure and find the fraction for each piece.
- Peer Review
Performance expectations
- The student was able to examine and label math models to find the fraction of parts to a whole. (3.GA.2)
- The student was able to examine a math model and determine if it is made out of equal pieces. (3.GA.2)
- The student was able to create a math model that shows a shape made out of equal pieces. (3.GA.2)
- The student was able to examine a peer’s math model and recreate it using different size pieces. (3.GA.2)
- The student was able to explain how the math model is parts to a whole and what a unit fraction is and connect it with the Big Idea. (3.GA.2)
- The student was able to explain other mathematical connections such as factors, number families, or equivalent fractions.
Age level
- 8 – 10 years old
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