1. Fractions Day 2 Pine Level Elementary Mrs. Housley

2. Journal Entry In your Daily Data table, instead of writing the number of students who chose each one, write the fraction of our class who chose each one. For example… How many students chose just Mercury? How many students are there in all? ? ?

3. Fractions Word Wall In math, the whole means the entire thing. My mom baked a whole cake for my birthday! She didn’t just bake part of it, she baked the entire cake!

4. Fractions Word Wall A fraction is an equal piece of the whole. Since there were many people at my party, we had to cut the cake to be sure that everyone could eat a fraction of the whole cake.

5. Fractions Word Wall The numerator is the top number you write in a fraction. It tells how many pieces you’re talking about. ½

6. Fractions Word Wall The denominator is the bottom number you write in a fraction. It tells how many pieces there are in all. ½

7. Fractions Word Wall an equal piece of the whole the entire thing whole fraction how many pieces your talking about how many pieces in all numerator denominator

8. Action Fraction By: Hap Palmer http://www.songsforteaching.com/happalmer/actionfraction.htm

9. Everybody's doin' the Action Fraction! Gettin' mathematical satisfaction! Dancin' a radical new sensation! Sweepin' it's way across the nation!

10. Reach up high as you can go. Bend down low and touch your toes. Lift your hands half way up, And mark the middle with a clap, clap, clap.

11. Reach up high as you can go. Bend down low and touch your toes. Lift your hands one fourth the way. Snap your fingers, step and sway.

12. Reach up high as you can go. Bend down low and touch your toes. Lift your hands three fourths the way, Jiggle and shake 'em any old way.

13. Turn one third and wave your hand. Turn another third and wave once more. Turn another third and you're right back home Ready to what you did before.

14. Everybody's doin' the Action Fraction! Gettin' mathematical satisfaction! Dancin' a radical new sensation! Sweepin' it's way across the nation!

15. Mrs. Housley’s Peculiar Pizzas Welcome to Mrs. Housley’s Peculiar Pizzas, where you pay no extra for your favorite creepy, crawly toppings! Today, you will be in training to work as a Peculiar Pizza Cook. Before taking on any specialties, you must first know how to cut a pizza into equal pieces. Here we go!

16. Mrs. Housley’s Peculiar Pizzas At Table 1, there are 2 customers. Use the yarn to show me how you would cut the whole pizza into fractions for these 2 customers. 1212 1212

17. Mrs. Housley’s Peculiar Pizzas At Table 4, there are 4 customers. Use the yarn to show me how you would cut the whole pizza into fractions for these 4 customers. 1414 1414 1414 1414

18. Mrs. Housley’s Peculiar Pizzas At Table 7, there are 6 customers. Use the yarn to show me how you would cut the whole pizza into fractions for these 6 customers. 1616 1616 1616 1616 1616 1616

19. Mrs. Housley’s Peculiar Pizzas At Table 3, there are 8 customers. Use the yarn to show me how you would cut the whole pizza into fractions for these 8 customers. 1818 1818 1818 1818 1818 1818 1818 1818

20. Mrs. Housley’s Peculiar Pizzas Congratulations! You have passed the first training! Now you can practice filling orders. Here, at Mrs. Housley’s Peculiar Pizzas, we offer only the most exceptional toppings! Some best sellers are…

21. Mrs. Housley’s Peculiar Pizzas lizard snake 1212 1212 Remember, the denominator (or bottom number tells you how many pieces to cut your pizza into. The numerator (or top number) tells you how many pieces to put the topping on.

22. Mrs. Housley’s Peculiar Pizzas frog snake 1414 3434

23. Mrs. Housley’s Peculiar Pizzas lizard frog snake 1616 2626 3636

24. Mrs. Housley’s Peculiar Pizzas frog lizard snake 2828 1818 5858

25. Mrs. Housley’s Peculiar Pizzas lizard frog 2424 2424

26. Mrs. Housley’s Peculiar Pizzas snake plain 6868 2828

27. Mrs. Housley’s Peculiar Pizzas snake frog plain 1414 1414 2424

28. Wrap-Up Take out those dry erase boards and come to the carpet for a quick review. No need to sit by your buddy this time!

29. Wrap-Up In math, the word used to describe the entire thing is the ____________. A.numerator B.fraction C.whole

30. Wrap-Up In math, the word used to describe a piece of the whole is called a _________. A.fraction B.denominator C.whole

31. Wrap-Up Write this fraction on your board. ¼ This shows how much of a sandwich Tristan ate for lunch. Put a triangle around the denominator.

32. Wrap-Up ¼ This shows how much of a sandwich Tristan ate for lunch. Put a circle around the numerator.

33. Wrap-Up Kristina ate 2 pieces of this pizza. Write what fraction of the pizza she ate. ? ? How many pieces are you talking about? How many pieces are there in all?

34. Wrap-Up Could you cut this shape into two fractions? If so, show me how on your dry erase board.