Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: I Want My Half
An interactive lesson teaches students about sharing in equal parts including halves, thirds, fourths, and fifths.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Fractions
Students learn about partitioning shapes and fractions. The resource consists of notes and practice problems.
Mr. Martini's Classroom
Mr. Martini's Classroom: Basic Fractions: Simple Fractional Parts
Explore fractions through creating shapes in this interactive exercise.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 1.g 3 D Shape Sort
As a whole group, students will sort a collection of three-dimensional objects into categories by shape. There should be several that fall into each of the categories below: Aligns with 1.G.A.1.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 2.g Which Pictures Represent One Half?
In this lesson plan students are given pictures of various shapes and are to determine which one is half shaded.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 2.g Representing Half of a Rectangle
In this lesson plan, 2nd graders are to determine what half of a rectangle is.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 3.nf Naming the Whole for a Fraction
When fractions are represented pictorially, they are always fractions of some whole.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Halves and Fourths
In this exercise, students practice identifying halves and fourths. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Halves and Fourths
Practice dividing shapes into 2 or 4 equal sections. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Overview of Quarter Circles and Semi Circles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video distinguishes between a quarter and semi-circle by defining and giving examples of each.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Number: Identify Halves and Quarters
This site provides students practice with the concept of halves and quarters. Students can learn about the topic by completing an interactive tutorial. Students can then take a ten question timed test to practice the skill.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identify Unit Fractions
Identify unit fractions when given a visual or a context. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video tutorial, receive hints. CCSS.Math.Content.3.G.A.2 Partition shapes into...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Equal Parts of Circles and Rectangles
In this exercise, students practice identifying equal parts of circles and rectangles. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints, watch a tutorial video, and try questions repeatedly.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Equivalent Fraction Models
Identify and create equivalent fractions using visual models. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints. CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.3.a Understand two fractions...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cutting Shapes Into Equal Parts
In this exercise, students practice cutting shapes into equal parts. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly. CCSS.Math.Content.3.G.A.2 Partition shapes into parts with equal...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Red and Blue Tiles
Students will determine whether a set of objects contains an even or odd number of members using strategies such as pairing objects or attempting to divide the objects into two equal subgroups. Discussion questions and explanations are...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Buttons Odd and Even
The purpose of this task is for students to determine whether a set of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of elements. Students will also write an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends and an odd...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Overlapping Rectangles
The purpose of this task is to give students an opportunity to compose and decompose polygons to make rectangles. The students will be shown a picture and are asked to count how many rectangles they see. Explanations and examples are...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Make Your Own Puzzle
Students will cut a square into four pieces, and then will put those pieces in an envelope for another student to put together. The purpose of this task is to give students a hands-on experience with composing and decomposing geometric...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Measure Me!
Students will work in pairs and measure each other using Unifix cubes. They will record their measurements on a worksheet which is included. Detailed instructions are provided.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Locating Fractions Less Than One on the Number Line
In every part of this task, students must treat the interval from 0 to 1 as a whole, partition the whole into the appropriate number of equal sized parts, and then locate the fraction(s). Aligns with 3.NF.A.2,...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 3.nf Find 1 Starting From 5/3, Assessment Variation
This is the third of three summative assessment tasks for 3.NF.2 that progress in difficulty. Each requires that students understand a fraction as a number on the number line and represent fractions on a number line diagram. Aligns with...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 3.md, 3.g, 3.nf Halves, Thirds, and Sixths
The purpose of this task is for students to use their understanding of area as the number of square units that covers a region, to recognize different ways of representing fractions with area, and to understand why fractions are...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 3.g Geometric Pictures of One Half
This task presents students with some creative geometric ways to represent the fraction one half. Aligns with 3.G.A.2.