Fraction Activities and Lessons

Materials:

• 10 inch flour tortillas (2 for each student)
• Markers and marker board (one large one for all responses or individual ones for each student)
• Colored Paper (various shades)
• Crayons/colored pencils
• Overhead (optional)
• Base-ten blocks
• Pies, and/or cakes (All the same size!)
• Cutting utensil
• Just the kids at first!
• Graph paper and lined paper (or you can make your own worksheets)
• Paper with three columns
• pencil
• Construction paper cirlces (pizzas)
• Index cards with fractions
• Linking cubes, bingo markers, or any small items in classroom to use as toppings
• Fraction Skittles (Not Skittles like you eat. Skittles are a manipulative teaching tool. See a picture here.) This material has 4 "skittles." The first one is a whole one and cannot be separated. The 2nd one is cut in half. The 3rd in thirds and the 4th in fourths.
• Fraction insets (See a picture here.) These are 10 circles. The first one is not cut at all (it is a whole circle). The 2nd one is cut in halves, the 3rd in thirds, and so on all the way up to ten.
• Graham Crackers
• Chocolate Bars
• Mini Hershey Kisses
• Marshmallows