• Fractions
  • Multiplication
  • Division
    

Activities:

• Warm-up
  • A first grade class took a poll to find out their favorite ice cream. 1/4 chose chocolate, 1/4 chose vanilla and 1/2 chose strawberry. 2 kids are lactose intolerant and can’t eat ice cream. If there are 22 kids in the class, how many kids liked each flavor?
• Teacher input
  • Explain the concept and procedure for multiplying fractions
• Independent Practice
  • Blog Word Problems
  • Interactive activity http://www.softschools.com/math/games/fractions_practice.jsp

Internet Links:

A first grade class took a poll to find out their favorite ice cream. 1/4 chose chocolate, 1/4 chose vanilla and 1/2 chose strawberry. 2 kids are lactose intolerant and can’t eat ice cream. If there are 22 kids in the class, how many kids liked each flavor?

There are 18 kids at a birthday party. 1/2 of the kids have blue eyes. How many kids do not have blue eyes?

Frank had 12 baseball cards. He gave Sam 3 cards, Billy 3 cards, and Aidan 3 cards. What is the fraction of cards that he gave away?

There are 30 Easter eggs hidden in the grass. 6 are pink, 6 are green, 8 are yellow and the rest are purple. If Joe found all of the purple eggs, what fraction shows how many he found?

A garden has 10 red roses, 8 pink tulips, and 15 yellow daisies. What fraction of the flowers are pink?

1/2 of the class has blond hair. 1/4 of the class has black hair. 1/4 of the class has brown hair. If there are 32 kids in the class, how many kids have each color hair?

Beth has 24 pieces of candy. She gave Jaime 1/3 and Selena another 1/4 of her candy. How much candy does she have left?

There are 6 pigs, 2 cows, and 4 roosters at the farm. What is the fraction of each animal at the farm?

When you finish, you can go to:

http://www.softschools.com/math/games/fractions_practice.jsp

• Addition of Fractions
• Subtraction of Fractions

Actitivites

• Warm-up
  • Lessons are to start with a review of the previous lesson or with a word problem
• Teacher input
  • Explain exercises based on the difficulty
    • Addition of fractions with equal denominator
    • Addition of fractions with different denominator
    • Subtraction of fractions with equal denominator
    • Subtraction of  fractions with different denominator
• Guided Practice
  • Exercises on the board
• Independent Practice
  • Addition and Subtraction worksheets on the blog
• Wrap-up
  • Check answers and clarify doubts

Internet Links:

Watch the video:  Addition of Fractions

Now let´s practice what we have learnt.

Addition of Fractios

Worksheet 1

Worksheet 2

Worksheet 3

Worksheet 4

Worksheet 5

Worksheet 6

Worksheet 7

Worksheet 8

Worksheet 9

Worksheet 10

Don´t forget to keep track of your mistakes and correct them!

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Are you ready for some practice?

Worksheet S1

Worksheet S2

Worksheet S3

Worksheet S4

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I would like you to try these word problems where you will be able to practice addition and subtraction of fractions like in daily life.

Fraction Wordproblems Worsheet

• Fractions
  

Activities:

• Warm-up
  • Introduction to fractions
    • Naming
    • Vocabulary
    • Simplifying
    • Equivalency
• Teacher input
  • Vocabulary and procedure when simplifying and naming fractions
• Independent Practice
  • Blog and book exercises

Internet Links:

If you have doubts on how to simplify fractions you can go to this link: http://www.mathsisfun.com/simplifying-fractions.html

Download the Simplifying Fraction Worksheet and stick it to your notebook.

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Simplifying Fractions Interactive Activity Link

Follow the link.  You must do at least 20 exercises.  Make sure you correct your mistakes and report your score following the A, B, C, D or F scale.

Vocabulary:

• Fractions
• Improper fractions
• Proper fractions
• Mixed Numbers
• Numerator
• Denominator
• Simplify fractions

• Operations with integers
• Ordering integers

Activities:

• Warm-up:
  • Review adding and subtraction of integers rules
• Teacher input:
  • Power Point presentation -Adding and subtracting integers-
• Guided Practice:
  • Slides 2.1 and 2.2
• Independent Practice:
  • Pages 4 and 5; Exercises 1, 2, and 3
• Wrap-up:
  • Extension exercise

INTEGRA Links:

Let´s see how well you do:

Adding and Subtracting Integers Activity

Classwork: Page 4, Exercises 1, 2 and 3

• Operations with Integers

Activities:

• Independent Practice:
  
  • Pages 6 & 8: Exercises 1-5 all

• Operations with Integers
• LCM & GCF
• Divisibility rules

Activities:

• Assessment:
  • Unit Test

• Integers

Activities:

• Warm-up:
  • Review integers and number line
  • Review absolute value and its symbol
• Teacher input:
  • Addition of positive and negative numbers
  • Subtraction of negative and positive numbers
• Guided Practice:
  • Page 4 exercise 1 (a-d)
• Independent Practice:
  • Page 5 exercise 2 (a-c) exercise 3 (a-l)
• Homework:
  
  • Blog:
    • Bruño exercises 11-14

INTEGRA Links:

• Integers
• Number line
• Absolute value

Activities:

• Warm-up & Teacher input:
  • Start lesson with a short quiz about LCM and GCF
  • Positive and negative numbers in daily life:
    • temperature
    • gaining or loosing money
    • up or down a building
  • Absolute value (distance from a number to 0)
  • Distance is neither positive nor negative
• Guided Practice:
  • Describe the following pairs of numbers with a situation from your daily lives
    • -5, -12
    • 12, -20
    • 5, -6
  • Absolute value symbol: /x/
• Independent Practice:
  • Represent numbers in number line: (Bruño, Pages 52, 53)
• Wrap-up:
  • Give an example of positive, negative numbers and absolute value in the daily life.

INTEGRA Links:

• Least Common Multiple
• Greatest Common Factor

Activities:

• Warm-up:
  • Choose a group of volunteer students and find common features
• Teacher input:
  • Explain how to find GCF and LCM through:
    • Factor tree procedure
    • Grouping procedure
• Guided Practice:
  • Find LCM of: 6 and 8, 6 and 9
  • Find GCF of: 4 and 6, 15 and 21
• Independent Practice:

• Divisibility Rules
• Prime Numbers
• Factors
• Composite Numbers

Activities:

• Assessment:
  • Unit 1Quiz Divisibility