PSP TASKS Solved

Group Members: Kristen, Amber, Shannon, and Kayli

Standards: Grade 3
3.NS.3: Understand a fraction, 1/b, as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned
into b equal parts; understand a fraction, a/b, as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b. [In
grade 3, limit denominators of fractions to 2, 3, 4, 6, 8.]

PSP Tasks
Sarah divided a cookie into halves. She ate a fourth of her half. How much of the whole cookie
did she eat? Explain how you arrived at your answer.
Students can answer this with a picture drawing of a cookie that is divided into halves and then
half of that divided into fourths and the student will then have to see what fraction of that whole
cookie is what she ate.

Patty has five cookies and she wants to split them into six groups equally. How much of the
cookies will be in each group? Draw a picture to help you solve the problem.
Students will draw a whole, which will be 5 cookies. Then they will split each cookie into 6 parts
to find that of each cookie each group gets . So, of the whole amount of cookies, which is 5
cookies, each group will get 5 parts which is of the whole. (Look at picture for clarification.)
------------------------------ 5 cookies ----------------------------

Total = for each group of the whole amount of cookies.

4th grade students work...

3rd grade students work..

Wrong way students may do tasks

She ate of her cookie.

Four of the groups will get one cookie and the last two groups will get half of the last
cookie.