TEKS 3.3A: Represent Fractions
Represent Fractions Using Models
About this lesson
Learning Target: I can represent fractions using number lines, fractions strips, and pictorial models.
Focuses On:
- Representing fractions on number lines
- Using fraction strips to represent fractions
- Identifying the fraction represented by fraction circles
Builds On:
2.3A:
Partition objects into equal parts and name the parts, including halves, fourths, and eighths, using words.
2.3C:
Use concrete models to count fractional parts beyond one whole using words and recognize how many parts it takes to equal one whole.
2.3D:
Identify examples and non-examples of halves, fourths, and eighths.
Next Level:
4.3D:
Compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators and represent the comparison using the symbols >, =, or <.
Read More:
This lesson is designed to support students in their conceptual understanding of fractional parts of a whole. Students will use number lines, fraction strips, and fraction circles in order to clearly represent fractional values.
The first instructional block focuses on students identifying a fraction represented by a point on a number line. Students will also place a point on the number line to represent a given fraction.
The second instructional block focuses on students using fraction strips in order to visualize the fractional parts of a whole.
In the third instructional block, students complete fraction circle models to represent given fractions and are also asked to name the fraction that is represented in fraction circles.
Scaffolds and supports such as pictorial representations and models are intentionally built throughout the lesson to support conceptual learning.
Grade 3MathTEKS 3.3A