Essential and guiding questions:
Whole Group Questions
Modeling the combining of fractions:
- How did you model the combining of each portion of M&Ms in the treat bags?
- Did anyone show it a different way?
Multiplication of a whole number by a fraction:
- How did you turn the whole number into a fraction?
- How did you multiply the whole number by the fraction?
- How could you model 9/1 ?
- How is this similar to multiplying two whole numbers?
Addition of fractions with like denominators:
- If you chose to use repeated addition, explain why the denominator stays the same and the numerator increases?
- How can you write the repeated addition equation as a multiplication equation?
- Changing the improper fraction into a whole or mixed number:
- How can you decompose the improper fraction and recombine the unit fractions to make a whole or mixed number?
- Did anyone use a different strategy?
Comparing the combining of two fractions to the benchmark 1:
- Did you have to add ½ + 2/3 ? Or is there another way to know if they are greater than 1?
- How did you know that the portion of M&Ms was too much to fit into the treat bag?
- Which is bigger 2/3 or 1/2?
- What is ½ + ½?
