2014-2015

Miss Beaupre

03/24/2015 - 03/24/2015
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Tuesday 03/24/2015

Math 11:00am - 12:30pm

Lesson:
Objective: Students will review fractions to get ready for relating decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals (to
thousandths).
Assessment: Formative; observation - students will show understanding of the introduction to the lesson by completing
Explore section on page 176 of their text.
Materials:
- Math Makes Sense (textbook), page 176-179
- Pencil
- Looseleaf Paper
- Hundredths Grid
- Base ten blocks or other manipulatives (optional)
Anticipatory Set: Ask students if they have ever planted a garden or know someone who has. "What are some of your
favourite garden vegetables?" "Have you ever noticed how a garden is planned out and planted?"
Activities: 4 x 15 minutes (per group) - Students will be put into "colour" groups that have been predetermined by the
teacher.
Before (Getting Started)
Let's have a look at the vegetable garden shown on page 176 of the textbook.
Ask students:
1. How many small squares do you see? How do you know?
2. How many small squares are planted with zucchini (the smaller green, pickle-like, vegetable)? What fraction of the
garden would that be?
3. How else can you describe the fraction of the garden that is planted with zucchini? *Think equivalent fractions. What
does it mean for fractions to be equivalent?
4. Are there any other equivalent fractions that we can make (out of 20/100)? How did you find them? Explain your
thought process to me.
5. What fraction of the garden is planted with carrots? How did you figure this out? What are some other equivalent
fractions for the carrots in the garden?
6. Corn?
7. Radishes?
8. Cucumbers?
After each group works with the teacher, students will pick up a copy of the hundredths grid and return to their desks to
complete Explore (on page 176).
Closure: A quick check for understanding - before students line-up for phys.ed pose a question for thought that they will
write on a sticky note: If I decided I wanted to plant an extra row of carrots in my garden, what would the fraction
become?
Standards:
5.1.9 Relate decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals (to thousandths). [CN, R, V]

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