Exploring fractions

Today we starting looking at what fractions are, how we add them, subtract them and when we use them in our lives.

We brainstormed many ways we use fractions every day.

• dividing time
• breaking up distance
• dividing food
• playing cards / snap - 2 even piles of cards
• Cooking and measuring ingredients - 1/2 cup
• Cutting a birthday cake in class - 1/22
• Dividing up a football field into 1/2 or 1/4
• Dividing space in a room
• Dividing students into even groups 11/22
• Half sizes - ex shoes
• Time - 1/4 past 12
• Negotiating how much time you have to read 1/2 hr then 1/2 hr iPad
• Breaking up a task - 1/2 done
• Eating your vegetable - eat 1/2 your carrot
• Breaking up the day sleep 8 hours - sleep 8/24 hours

We also watched some helpful videos. 

If you find fractions a bit confusing you can watch again. 

Here are the links ....

What are fractions? 

Compare fractions

Fraction is really division