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Identify
and Write Fractions:
Representational Level
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Introduction
Math Skill/Concept: Identifying fractional parts and writing fractions by drawing pictures that represent concrete materials.
Identify fractional parts and wholes using area model, measurement model, and sets model (if appropriate) concrete materials.
1.) Draw representations of fractional parts and write fractions.
1.) When teaching how to draw fractions, some students may prefer to draw circles while others will prefer to draw rectangles. Although you should teach several different methods, allow students to choose the drawing method that is easiest and most efficient for them.
2.) Student drawings do not need to be exact! Although they will be drawing fractional parts that are proportional in size, students with writing problems will have difficulty making their drawings exact. Emphasis should be placed on the meaning of their drawings, not the drawings themselves.
3.) By drawing fractions they previously identified with concrete materials, students will experience a very important “intermediate” transition from concrete understanding to eventual abstract understanding. Do not rush through this phase of instruction, since many students with learning problems greatly benefit from solidifying their concrete understanding of fractions by drawing them.
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