Skills Covered

How to Use This Pack

Five pages on fractions with denominators 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8. On page 1 students write the fraction shaded in circles and rectangles and name it in words, like one sixth or three fourths. Page 2 does the same with fraction strips (a length model) and sets of counters. Page 3 counts unit fractions along strips: one sixth, two sixths, up to six sixths, which is one whole, and on to two wholes with halves and thirds. On page 4 each box shows one part and says what it stands for, like 1/3 of a rectangle: students draw the whole on dot paper and say how many parts it has. Page 5 has six fraction stories about pizza, ribbon, ducks and pies to shade and answer.

In the Classroom

Fold paper strips into halves, fourths and eighths, and others into thirds and sixths, and label each part. Count the parts out loud as you touch them: one sixth, two sixths, three sixths. Before page 4, hand out one paper piece and say it is one third of a strip: how many pieces like it make the whole strip?

At Home

Cut a sandwich, a tortilla or a piece of paper into equal parts and name them together. Ask how many parts make the whole, then eat or take away one part and name what is left, like five sixths.

Tips for Success

• The bottom number tells how many equal parts make the whole
• The top number tells how many parts we are counting
• Count unit fractions like counting: one fourth, two fourths, three fourths
• Four fourths, six sixths and eight eighths each make one whole
• To build the whole from one part, repeat the part until you have all of them