Identify and Write Fractions: Representational Level

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PHASE 4: Maintenance

Purpose: to provide students periodic opportunities to respond to previously mastered skills thereby assisting their “maintenance” of the mastered skill. It also provides additional opportunities for students to “re-connect” their abstract understanding to concrete and representational understanding.

1. Center Activities

Description:

During “Center Time” devote one or more centers to the following activities:

Center Idea/Activity #1 - Students use halves, fourths, & eighths pieces to represent their corresponding fractions given on flash cards. Flash cards have pictures that represent the fractional part on the back. Students can self-check by turning the card over and comparing their concrete representation to the picture.

CenterIdea/Activity #2 - Students cut fraction pieces from paper copies of figures divided into fractional parts and glue them on learning sheets to represent halves, fourths, etc.

Center Idea/Activity #3 –- Students write appropriate fraction given flash cards that have “fraction language” on one side (e.g. “one-half,” “one-fourth,” one part out of eight equal parts,” ect.). Flash cards have the appropriate fraction on the opposite side so students can self-check their responses.

2. Problem of the Day

Description:

Provide a problem of the day that focuses on one or more fractional parts. Orally give the problem while students read the question/prompt written on the chalkboard. Ask students to discuss the strategy they used to get the answer. The student(s) will demonstrate using appropriate manipulatives, by drawing solutions, or by writing the fraction that represents the fractional part given (e.g. “one-half,” “one-fourth,” one part out of eight equal parts,” ect.). Teacher models skill after this discussion, highlighting important ideas/features.