Fractions

Overview

Curator: Jessica Johnson

 

Name & Link to Tech Tool: http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/fractions/index.htm

 

Brief Description of Tech Tool: This tech tool is five different activities that cover many of the expectations in the Common Core State Standards for Number and Operations- Fraction. These activities are highly motivating and fun for students and get harder as they progress. Students can practice naming and identifying fractions, placing fractions on a number line, making equivalent fractions and subtracting fractions using visuals.

 

Technical & Cost considerations: This tech tool is a free website, with no registration required. It works on both Apple and Windows operating systems. It also can be used on the Smart Board without any technical constraints.

 

Evaluation

Description of Learning Activity: This tech tool allows students to practice a variety of fraction concepts, as well as apply their knowledge to an assortment of problems.

 

1. Learning Activity Types:

• LA-Practice - practicing for fluency

• LA-Apply - applying mathematics to problems and situations

 

2. What mathematics is being learned?

• Common Core State Standards:

  • This tech tool satisfies the 3rd – 5th grade CCSS Essential Expectation that students develop a understanding of fractions as numbers.

• NCTM Standards:

  • NCTM-N&0-understand numbers - understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems;

• Proficiency Strands:

  • PS-conceptual understanding: comprehension of mathematical concepts, operations, and relationsPS-strategic competence: ability to formulate, represent, and solve mathematical problems

 

3. How is the mathematics represented?

Fraction- A Booster Activity represents mathematics in a variety of ways. This tech tool has both numerical and visual representations, as well as virtual manipulatives.

 

4. What role does technology play?

Technology allows these activities to be interactive and get more challenging as students progress throughout each level. Technology provides immediate feedback so students know if they understand the content.

• Affordances of Technology for Supporting Learning:

  • Computing & Automating- Students receive automatic feedback if they are solving the problem accurately. Representing Ideas & Thinking – This tech tool uses many visuals to represent fraction content.

 

5. How does the technology fit or interact with the social context of learning?

This tech tool would work best for individual practice and review on computer or iPads.

 

6. What do teachers and learners need to know?

There are directions to help guide students and teachers through this Booster Activity. Students need to understand the basic of how to name and identify fractions. They also need to understand what a numerator and denominator represents and how this effects the value of a fraction.