Eggsactly with Fractions

This website provides teachers with various lesson plans that teach different types of fractions. The lessons allows students to explore relationships among fractions through work with the set model. This early work with fraction relationships helps students make sense of basic fraction concepts and facilitates work with comparing and ordering fractions and working with equivalency. This site provides several different lesson plans that teach students about fractional parts of sets and equivalent fractions.

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Eggsactly with Fractions

Standards & Objectives

Learning objectives: 

Students will:

  • Create bar graphs.
  • Find the range and mode of a data set.
  • Determine whether an outcome is possible, likely, or certain.

Lesson Variations

Blooms taxonomy level: 
Applying
Extension suggestions: 
  • On Create a Graph Tool site, you can also generate a pie chart. Although the students at this level may not be able to construct a pie chart, they may enjoy seeing this popular graph. To generate it, choose the "Pie Chart" option when you get to the site. You may wish to have students compare these two forms of representation. They might say, for example, that a bar graph is a graph that uses bars to show data, whereas a pie chart uses sections or slices of a whole to show data.
  • Alternatively, you may compare two data sets. Tell the class they will visit another class and collect two pieces of data from one or more students in that class--the color of each student's eyes and hair. After they have returned to their own classroom, divide the class into two groups. Assign one group to make a bar graph with the eye-color data and the other group to make a pictograph with the hair-color data from the students in the buddy class.
  • Now display the bar graph from their own class survey on eye color and ask them to compare it with the buddy class bar graph. Call on volunteers to describe any similarities and differences they see. If they do not mention the range and the mode, prompt these responses. Repeat with the hair-color graphs
  • Move on to the last lesson, Look at Me: Making Glyphs.

Helpful Hints

Materials:

  • Crayons
  • Index cards
  • Paper
  • Create a Graph Tool 

References

Contributors: 
Nicole Bowling
Originator: 
Ayers Institute for Learning & Innovation