Lesson Plan
A Fair Share of Fractions
Teach your students fair shares with this hands-on resource. Using this lesson plan, your class will create, label, and illustrate sums for fair shares using a folded paper model.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to illustrate sums of fair shares using a paper folded model.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Hand out a plain sheet of paper (cut in a perfect square) to your students.
- Propose this challenge, "Who can fold this page into the least amount of equal parts where each part has less than four sides?"
- After allowing for some thinking and folding time, call on a few students to share their solutions with the whole class.
- Announce that today’s lesson, begins with the models where students folded their squares diagonally once to form two identical triangles!