Fractions and Decimals

Activities, ideas, and resources for teaching fractions and decimals with deep conceptual understanding
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Engaging fraction lessons, tips, and puzzle
Explore strategies to simplify teaching fractions and create effective fraction lessons. This post is packed with tips to help students grasp fractions with confidence and make planning your fraction lessons easier and more impactful. Perfect for elementary teachers focused on teaching fractions!
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Fraction Lessons and Activities
Teaching fractions in a meaningful way can be a challenge. Check out this blog post with ideas about how to help students develop deep math understanding with quality fraction lessons and activities. #fractions #teachingfractions #fractionlessons #fractionactivities #fractionunit #fourthgradefractions
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Fraction Lessons and Activities
Teaching fractions in a meaningful way can be a challenge. Check out this blog post with ideas about how to help students develop deep math understanding with quality fraction lessons and activities. #fractions #teachingfractions #fractionlessons #fractionactivities #fractionunit #fourthgradefractions
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Fraction Lessons and Activities
Teaching fractions in a meaningful way can be a challenge. Check out this blog post with ideas about how to help students develop deep math understanding with quality fraction lessons and activities. #fractions #teachingfractions #fractionlessons #fractionactivities #fractionunit #fourthgradefractions
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Fraction Lessons and Activities
Teaching fractions in a meaningful way can be a challenge. Check out this blog post with ideas about how to help students develop deep math understanding with quality fraction lessons and activities. #fractions #teachingfractions #fractionlessons #fractionactivities #fractionunit #fourthgradefractions
Learn more about using math sorts to teach fractions! These fraction lessons are engaging AND meaningful. Teaching fractions can be fun! Fraction printables, fraction unit, fraction lessons, fraction activities, fraction lesson plans
Concept Sorts–Deep Thinking about Fractions
Learn more about using math sorts to teach fractions! These fraction lessons are engaging AND meaningful. Teaching fractions can be fun! Fraction printables, fraction unit, fraction lessons, fraction activities, fraction lesson plans
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Teaching Fractions
Teaching fractions can be overwhelming but this post can help students work to develop deep fraction understanding, explain their math thinking and practice critiquing reasoning, look for fraction misconceptions, and have some fraction fun along the way! Using hands on fractions activities and math reasoning about fractions in your grade 3, grade 4, and grade 5 classrooms is so important. Fraction number lines, fraction activities, fraction lessons, fraction printables, fraction unit
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Teaching Fractions
Teaching fractions is challenging--but if we use a gradual release of instruction method we have the best chance of deep fraction understanding. Perfect for third grade fractions, fourth grade fractions, fifth grade fractions, fraction unit, fraction lessons, fraction activities
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Fractions are Numbers
Comparing fractions lessons...check out this blog post for a ton of teaching tips to help you teach fractions in a more in-depth, rigorous way. Lots of fraction lessons and fraction activities to share!
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Adding and subtracting mixed numbers
Using fraction worksheets is one way to get students practicing, but finding engaging and rigorous activities that require more thinking is better! This set of fraction puzzles gets students estimating, talking about math, and adding and subtracting mixed numbers in ways unlike anything you’ve seen! Fun. Rigorous. Effective. #fractions #teachingfractions #fractionactivities #fourthgrademath #fifthgrademath
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Fraction Folding–discovery learning
Check out this blog post for hands on fraction activities, fraction lessons, teaching fractions, fourth grade fractions, third grade fractions, fraction ideas and more!
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Getting Students Ready to Learn Fractions: Gradual Release and More
Teaching fractions is challenging--but if we use a gradual release of instruction method we have the best chance of deep fraction understanding. Perfect for third grade fractions, fourth grade fractions, fifth grade fractions, fraction unit, fraction lessons, fraction activities
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What makes teaching fractions so challenging?
Check out this blog post series about improving our fraction instruction! fraction lessons, fraction lesson plans, fraction activities, common core fractions, common core math, third grade common core, fourth grade common core, equivalent fractions, fraction unit, fraction resources grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, fifth grade, fourth grade, third grade, third grade math, fourth grade math, fifth grade math
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Teaching Fractions: Wholes, Sets, and Measurement
This blog post is a great way to help you learn more about teaching fractions. Tons of fraction lesson ideas, teaching tips, and more to help you really help your students UNDERSTAND fractions.
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Fraction Number Lines
Teaching fractions is tricky enough--but really helping students visualize fractions requires lots of work with physical materials and then--when they are ready--number lines. Fraction number line activities are a great way to help students develop fraction number sense and reasoning, and this blog post will get you started in a meaningful way! Fractions don't have to be challenging if we have quality fraction lessons and activities!