Procedures counters and students will use the counters and the six small paper plates. plates to predict how the characters will solve the problem. Read aloud the first After the problem has been presented story problem. Allow students to make and predictions made, discuss what predictions and then use their happened to the set. Draw a pictorial manipulatives to see whether their representation or display a predictions were correct. representation for the first division. Station Give each one of the remaining story After all groups have shared their story Practice Teaching problems to solve. Direct students in each problems and solutions, discuss and compare group to discuss the problem, use the what happened to the set of items being manipulatives to solve it, and then represent divided in each problem. Discuss the fair their solution on a piece of chart paper. shares (equal-size portions) described in each problem. Explain that fractions are fair shares When groups have finished, conduct a carousel of a whole or a set. walk (each group rotates to read the posters of the other groups). Then have each group read their story problem aloud to the class and share their solution. Display each group’s chart. Ask the students, do you notice Team Teaching “What happening to the fair shares as the denominator of the fraction gets larger?” Show students that when the set of 12 items was divided into halves, each share was one half of the 12 items, or a total of six items. When the set of 12 items was divided into sixths, each share was one sixth of the 12 items, or a total of two items. Have students look for the pattern, using
Procedures counters and six small paper plates. After the problem has been presented and predictions made, discuss what happened to the set. Draw a pictorial representation or display a representation for the first division. students will use the counters and the plates to predict how the characters will solve the problem. Read aloud the first story problem. Allow students to make predictions and then use their manipulatives to see whether their predictions were correct. Practice Station Teaching Team Teaching Give each one of the remaining story problems to solve. Direct students in each group to discuss the problem, use the manipulatives to solve it, and then represent their solution on a piece of chart paper. When groups have finished, conduct a carousel walk (each group rotates to read the posters of the other groups). Then have each group read their story problem aloud to the class and share their solution. Display each group’s chart. Ask the students, “What do you notice happening to the fair shares as the denominator of the fraction gets larger?” Show students that when the set of 12 items was divided into halves, each share was one half of the 12 items, or a total of six items. When the set of 12 items was divided into sixths, each share was one sixth of the 12 items, or a total of two items. Have students look for the pattern, using After all groups have shared their story problems and solutions, discuss and compare what happened to the set of items being divided in each problem. Discuss the fair shares (equal-size portions) described in each problem. Explain that fractions are fair shares of a whole or a set.