1. Fourth Grade Fraction Workshop

3. Objective Teachers will have a deeper understanding of the Fraction Domain of the Common Core. They will demonstrate their understanding through their struggle of working through the given activities and through the use of precise language when sharing their thinking.

4. What is a Fraction? It is a Number!!!

5. Fractions is taught by doing not by telling. Fractions is more than just a part of the whole.

6. Activity 1 Discuss

7. Two important aspects about Fractions Specifying the Whole Explaining what is meant by equal parts

8. Congruent figures have the same area.

9. The Focus is Area and not the Shape

10. What fraction is represented by the following shaded area?

11. National Library of Virtual Manipulatives Fractions Visualizing http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/category_g_2_t_1.html

12. The Fat Inch Directions

13. Comparison Same Numerator Same Denominator Compare to a benchmark

14. Counting with unit Fraction

15. The Number Line (Area to Length)

18. Counting and Decomposing

20. Equivalent Fractions

21. Equivalence by Subdividing the area 123 1 2 3 4 123

23. Addition

25. Teaching Addition

27. = ==

36. Closing Activity Highlight In Blue what you are sure of In Yellow what you still have questions In Red what you do not understand