Fraction Fun

This month, we are learning all about fractions. We had so much fun on our visit to CiCi's Pizza, where we enjoyed making AND eating our pizza! We talked about dividing a whole into equal shares and what we would do if, for example, 7 people wanted to share 8 pizzas equally. (Each person would get 1 1/8.) Thank you CiCi's for such a wonderful time... You were so generous to us!

I also enjoyed making fraction flowers (found on Pinterest, of course), where the students divided 3 circles into halves, fourths, and eighths to make leaves, tulips, and sunflowers. So cute!

Other games I like to play with my small groups to practice fractions include "I have... Who has..." with fractions in number and picture form and "Order Them!" where I lay out unit fractions for students to order least to greatest or greatest to least on a number line of 0-1. This game is ideally played first with fractions in picture form and then in numerical form. It can also be played for written fractions for students to practice reading fraction names.

Since fractions are a harder concept, particularly for third graders, I love hearing about other ideas!!!! Thanks for stopping by!