Lesson Plan 2: Weekly plan- Fractions

These pictures represent my ability to teach using manipulatives (pattern blocks, number-line bars, fraction bars, base blocks/bars), using literature, and using technology.

I taught a weekly lesson covering equivalent fractions and introducing adding/subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. To begin, I read Hershey's Milk Chocolate by Jerry Polata, then I read Fraction Action by Loreen Leedy

6 different tables with about 4 kids at each

After reading these books to the students on each day of the week, I introduced the objective for each math lesson. The students would be learning about equivalent fractions and they would be learning about adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators. 


Using different models to represent equivalent fractions, the students used pattern blocks, counters, tenth sticks, and a number line to model equivalent fractions and parts/pieces of a whole.

They also used paper cut outs of Hershey's Milk Chocolate bars (cut into 12ths) to compare equivalent fractions and to add/subt. fractions with like and unlike denominators.


This demonstrates my ability to teach math using technology, manipulatives, and literature:

Students problem solving with fractions

Counters and pattern blocks

Using fraction bars to represent fractions

Using the SMART board to relay information about the least common denominator

Teaching with technology

Teaching using technology

Several pieces to make a whole shape