Hello Everyone, welcome back for our last week of the blog. We will continue to dive into the next gen common core standards as we move on to third grade. As always I like to find ways to teach the lessons that do not involve a chalk board so lets take a look. This weeks common core standard is:

Through their learning in the Number Sense and Operations—Fractions domain, students:
• develop an understanding of fractions, beginning with unit fractions;
• view fractions in general as being built out of unit fractions, and use fractions along with visual fraction models to represent parts of a whole;
• understand that the size of a fractional part is relative to the size of the whole. Use fractions to represent numbers equal to, less than, and greater than one; and
• solve problems that involve comparing fractions by using visual fraction models and strategies based on noticing equal numerators or denominators

So the part of this I want to look at is the understanding unit fractions.

I chose this video because it uses the example of a pizza pie which most students should be familiar with. I think it is a nice and easy way to introduce students to unit fractions.

From there we can have them do some of the work the video showed. Its easy to create a work sheet like this:

I think this lays a good foundation for the lessons ahead so please let me know if you have any questions or even if you know a better way to teach this!

Thanks for reading!