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Adding Fractions - Math Lesson Plan Template

Adding Fractions

The interactive white board tool for this lesson can be found on our

website under Resources and Teacher Tools.

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In this DreamBox lesson, students use fraction tile manipulatives to find

the sum of the fractions. Using the tiles, students demonstrate the

answer visually and then numerically. The interactive whiteboard tool for

this lesson can be found on our website under Resources and Teacher

Tools:

Sample Lesson

Objective

Using both a concrete bar model and equations, this tool enables students to

represent fraction addition and think strategically about which fractional pieces are

best to solve a given problem.

Background

Students should have background knowledge of equivalent fractions.

Instructions

1. Open the lesson on an interactive whiteboard or data projector and have

students create the solution by drawing the fraction tiles on paper or individual

white boards.

2. Invite students to form groups based upon common solutions, showing them a

variety of solutions and strategies are possible. Then have one person from each

group explain why their answer works as a solution.

Possible strategies:

a) Students use the unit fraction and count out each given fraction within the

equation.

b) Students use equivalent fraction combinations to create each individual

fraction within the equation.

c) Students use equivalent fraction combinations to create the sum of the

fractions.

d) Students may come up with alternative strategies as well.

3. Ask one student to solve the problem and determine the accuracy of their

answer.

Adapted from: Fosnot & Dolk.

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here_). “Addition and Subtraction Facts on the Horizon.” Young

Mathematicians at Work: Constructing Number Sense, Addition, and Subtraction (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann), p. 106.

Adding Fractions - Math Lesson Plan Template