Lesson objective: Practice identifying non-unit fractions.
This lesson helps to build skill with naming fractions. Number lines are used here because they support students' understanding of fractions as numbers we can show on a number line along with whole numbers. This work develops students' understanding that fractions are a number that names the result of partitioning a whole .
Students engage in Mathematical Practice 6 (attend to precision) as they partition lengths and locate fractions on a number line.
Key vocabulary:
- denominator
- fraction
- numerator
Additional Materials:
- scissors