Links:

http://www.math-play.com/math-fractions-games.html

http://mrnussbaum.com/compcastle/  game using fractions

Fraction Games

http://www.math-salamanders.com/free-online-fraction-calculator.html  fraction calculator

https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/math/fractions.php fractions calculator

  Lesson 1 Day1: Fraction Layer Book

Lesson 1: Day 2 (Equivalent Fractions)

Day 3  Equivalent fractions with Pattern Blocks

Imagine that you are holding a bag with the following pattern blocks within it:

10 yellow hexagons, 10 red trapezoids, 10 blue rhombi, and 10 green triangles in a plastic zip bag.

http://www.mathplayground.com/patternblocks.html

• If a hexagon is 1 whole, what part of the whole is a trapezoid? How do you know?  
• Are there other blocks you can use to show the hexagon with different fractional parts?  

1.  Pattern Block Equivalents Recording Sheet A

• What fractional part of the yellow hexagon is represented by the red trapezoid?  
• What fractional part of the blue rhombus is the green triangle?  
• How can both the red trapezoid and the blue rhombus be equivalent to ?  
• What fractional part of the red trapezoid is the green triangle?  
• What fractional part of the yellow hexagon is the blue rhombus?  
• How can both the green triangle and the blue rhombus be equivalent to ? 

1. Handout: Pattern Block Equivalents Practice A
2.  replicate the model using your selection of Pattern Blocks.                                            

• If these hexagons represent 1 whole, what part of the whole is a trapezoid? How do you know?  
• Are there other blocks you can use to show the hexagon with different fractional parts?  

          Pattern Block Equivalents Recording Sheet B.

1. Handout: Pattern Block Equivalents Recording Sheet B 
2. Use the other pattern blocks from your selection of blocks to find other ways to show the 2 hexagons.

• What fractional part of the whole (two hexagons) did we say the red trapezoid was?  
• When you shaded in each model to show one-half, how many trapezoids did you shade?
•    Out of how many total trapezoids? 
• What fraction could you use to represent the two out of four trapezoids shaded?  
• How many rhombi did you shade to show one-half? 
  
• Out of how many total rhombi?  
• What fraction could you use to represent the three out of six rhombi shaded?  
• How about the triangles? When you shaded one-half of the model, how many triangles did you shade?
•   Out of how many total triangles?  
• In Practice A, one red trapezoid is of the yellow hexagon and 2 red trapezoids are equal or equivalent to one whole hexagon.
• In Practice B, one red trapezoid is of the 2 yellow hexagons or the whole and 4 red trapezoids are equal or equivalent to one whole.
• Is the fractional value of the red trapezoid from Practice A equivalent to the fractional value of the red trapezoid from Practice B? Explain. Yes or No - explain.
  
• How does the red trapezoid from Practice A compare to the red trapezoid from Practice B? 

Handout Pattern Block Equivalents Practice B

Day 4

Lesson 1: Day 5

Lesson 2: Day1

Lesson 2: Day 2

There is an assignment on Edmodo for you to do as a follow up on this activity.

Resources:

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html