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From the lens Hands-on Fractions.

Thanks for dropping by! Your comments are always welcome. (Basic HTML is accepted.) I'd love to hear or see how you teach fractions!

  • Tradeshowhobo May 25, 2012 @ 11:33 am | delete
    More teachers need to use practical application when teaching fractions. Great lens.
  • MisterJeremy Apr 26, 2012 @ 6:08 pm | delete
    Came back to this lens via your blog, looking for some good activities to teach my third graders fractions. Great stuff here!
  • drbilltellsexcitingstories Mar 8, 2012 @ 11:42 pm | delete
    Enjoyed the lens... been a long time since I studied fraction... even got a Math B.S. degree many years ago... learning has changed; seems to be working fine. Keep up the good work. Appreciate the lens and your sharing! ;-)
  • brando87 Mar 2, 2012 @ 7:41 pm | delete
    very inventive. I used to tutor primary aged children. I used to use jelly beans sometimes.
  • theCNAtraining Feb 17, 2012 @ 1:30 am | delete
    fractions is pretty cool. we use simple fractions every day of our lives! something important to learn and to be able to do your head for faster calculations.
  • vividviolet Feb 5, 2012 @ 9:52 pm | delete
    this will be useful... thanks
  • Catherine Baron Feb 5, 2012 @ 8:22 am | delete
    I loved this! Wish I had seen this when I was homeschooling. I'm now a teacher in the public schools, and developed some great lesson plans using your page. Thanks for sharing!
  • jimmyworldstar Feb 4, 2012 @ 3:27 pm | delete
    The only thing I remember about fractions is making the denominator equal to the other ones.
  • KarenCookieJar Nov 23, 2011 @ 9:53 am | delete
    Fractions are easy.... with a CALCULATOR! ha
  • joycecity Nov 9, 2011 @ 11:51 am | delete
    very creative!
  • JodiFromFlorida Oct 5, 2011 @ 7:12 pm | delete
    This would be great for homeschooling. Very educational lens!
  • Teddi14 Sep 28, 2011 @ 10:41 pm | delete
    Great job!
  • franstan Sep 12, 2011 @ 7:16 pm | delete
    Blessings on this lens. Fractions are a difficult concept for children to grasp but you have made it so easy.
  • Comfortdoc Aug 14, 2011 @ 2:41 pm | delete
    I always thought pies were a good way to teach fractions. Of course kids learn quickly if 1/2 of a cookie is more than a whole cookie, especially if they are eating one. I put measuring cups in the tub so the girls to measure water.
  • LisaAuch Jul 29, 2011 @ 6:30 pm | delete
    I ave had a quick scan through and I am going to bookmark this for tomorrow (late here) and will come back tomorrow with my daughter, as this is exactly what we need to crack fractions! for her starting the new term! I should have known you would have had what I needed ;-) Thanks jimmie!
  • kab Jul 24, 2011 @ 11:37 am | delete
    We did some with legos. We sorted them like you did with your foods. It also worked well to see spatially by comparing a blog that is 2x6 and saying what it we split it into 6 pieces - then putting together 6 blocks 2x1. One being a different color is 1/6th. Then what if we split our big blog into 12 pieces. We put together 12 blocks 1x1. We have to make 2 of those blocks a different color to match the other, visually seeing that 1/6 = 2/12. (easier to see than tell - which is exactly why it works).
  • iRenew Jul 21, 2011 @ 12:51 am | delete
    This is good stuff. I think you really have to teach with manipulatives to get it right! Rulers and measuring cups are my favorites.
  • JoshK47 Jun 22, 2011 @ 12:06 pm | delete
    Great ideas - I kind of wish my mom had been as creative with my curiculum when I was being homeschooled. :)
  • Serenia May 28, 2011 @ 4:34 pm | delete
    Maths was never my strong point, but this lens has some excellent ideas and resources for learning about fractions. Thank you.
  • EverythingMouse May 24, 2011 @ 4:51 pm | delete
    This is just what I was looking for to inspire my son to learn about fractions. Squid Angel Blessings to you
  • RetroMom Apr 29, 2011 @ 9:15 pm | delete
    Very nice. Teaching match to children is really difficult. But if you teach them in a creative and fun way, they will surely learn.
  • sushilkin Apr 25, 2011 @ 9:52 am | delete
    Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Keep sharing always. Please PRAY for JAPAN by visit on Squidoo!!
  • Mujjen Apr 15, 2011 @ 2:01 am | delete
    My daughter just started learning fractions in school, so this will be very handy! Think I like the baking tip....must make sure mummy has a steady supply of cookies!
  • Philippians468 Apr 14, 2011 @ 12:01 pm | delete
    i love teach fractions with cards and shapes! great work on the lens! cheers
  • HSSchulte Apr 12, 2011 @ 9:42 pm | delete
    This is most excellent! I am going to do this with my boys. We homeschool also.
  • Heidi Apr 4, 2011 @ 7:11 pm | delete
    Thank you for sharing this. I need to go over fractions and your suggestions are very helpful. I have the Mega-Fun Card-Game Math but had not heard of some of the other books you suggested. Thank you!! :D
  • blackspanielgallery Apr 2, 2011 @ 11:06 am | delete
    Nice lens. Just joined your fan club.
  • eclecticeducation Apr 1, 2011 @ 10:38 am | delete
    Great ideas! Thank you. Blessed by an April Fools Angel. :)
  • sorana Mar 11, 2011 @ 7:09 pm | delete
    Excellent activities for learning fractions. Lensrolled to my How to Learn Fractions lens.
  • GonnaFly Feb 6, 2011 @ 2:50 pm | delete
    Great ideas. This lens has been blessed by the maths angel and added to my best maths resources lens.
  • wordstock Dec 5, 2010 @ 3:04 pm | delete
    As a parent of a 4th grader, this is a great site with lots and lots of helpful information and tools. You bet this got and Squid Angel blessing, it is going to be a blessing for me.
  • Momsbusy247 Nov 13, 2010 @ 10:57 am | delete
    I think cooking or anything to do with food is a great way to teach kids fractions. This is a very good resource for anyone trying to teach their kids fractions, nicely done.
  • JoyfulPamela Oct 11, 2010 @ 10:05 am | delete
    We have many homemade fraction manipulatives that we have used, but you have some new varieties! Thanks for sharing them. :D
  • Joy Apr 12, 2010 @ 4:26 am | delete
    You may want to clarify that in the NC Dept of Pub. Ed. page you have for coloring in the squares in fraction ways, that it came from Grade 4 on that page.

    Thanks so much for this help!
  • Joy Apr 9, 2010 @ 9:16 am | delete
    THANK YOU! This is JUST the help I need for my son. -a homeschooling m-wife in Nepal
  • HSScarriejoy Sep 15, 2009 @ 2:13 pm | delete
    here are the fraction cards I printed to use: http://www.helpingwithmath.com/resources/oth_flashcards.htm#fractioncards

    and I thought this little chart was snazzy for showing equivalent fractions
    http://www.helpingwithmath.com/printables/others/lin0301fraction01.htm
  • HSScarriejoy Sep 15, 2009 @ 2:10 pm | delete
    JIMMIE you've done it again! (and I didn't even realize this was your lense until I started reading through it and saw Sprite's name!) Thank you for taking the time to post your resources. We're rowing Lentil right now and fractions are being introduced this week. I started with Legos yesterday. We related an 8 dot brick to a whole note, a 4 dot to a 1/2 note and a 2 dot to an 1/8 note. I've printed out some fractions cards w/ both the numeral and the physical representation and I'm going to have the kids use legos to copy and then I'm planning to use the Sen teacher dice you linked. If I find anything cool, I'll sure report back! THANK YOU again for helping me be a better teacher!
  • _Joan_ Aug 23, 2009 @ 11:38 pm | delete
    Great pictures and activities. I'm adding this to a math lensography I'm putting together.
  • AndyPo May 20, 2009 @ 1:50 am | delete
    Great ideas. I've done some maths teaching over the years (I'm a physicist) and I found it difficult to understand why people didn't understand fractions, which made it hard for me to teach the subject to people who didn't get it. Thanks.
  • poddys May 5, 2009 @ 10:00 pm | delete
    Great lens and guide to fractions. I know this used to fox me years ago, and I had to teach them to my Mom since she didn't understand them either. 5***** for a great study guide.
  • C-Joy May 1, 2009 @ 9:11 pm | delete
    This is fantastic! I don't cover fractions in the age group I teach, but it is great to have a reference in case a child is interested in them :)
  • hlkljgk Apr 19, 2009 @ 7:10 am | delete
    great ideas! thanks for all of your hard work on this lens.
  • Kathy Apr 17, 2009 @ 2:16 pm | delete
    You have mentioned many books which I already have so I am going to look for the others you recommended. Thanks so much!

    Kathy
    http://www.kathalog.com
  • groovyoldlady Apr 7, 2009 @ 7:30 am | delete
    "Sprite" is very fortunate to have such an involved and creative mom/teacher!
  • Evelyn_Saenz Mar 31, 2009 @ 4:26 pm | delete
    You beat me too it! I was just about to start a lens on fractions.

    Yours is the best! I love all those wonderful, hands-on activities especially the clay food fractions.

    You can also make recipes using colored blocks for the ingredients. For example: In Baby Bear's Porridge 2/3 of the berries are blueberries. In Mama Bear's Porridge 1/4 of the berries are raspberries. etc.
  • spirituality Mar 28, 2009 @ 6:34 am | delete
    Sounds like a great way to introduce fractions - I do hope (being a math teacher ) that you will progress to decimal numbers and make sure to come back to adding and substracting in later years. I recently had two high school students to tutor and neither of them had a sense for the simplest math tasks - like dividing 354 by 1000 - had to use a calculator.
  • aj80 Mar 27, 2009 @ 2:52 am | delete
    Some excellent tips. Thank you for sharing.

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