Coffee Driven

I used this resource with a remediation group. Students were required to justify with answer using a strategy such as a number line, benchmarks, or finding common denominators.

This activity is great for morning work, morning meeting, community building, or for your fractions unit! Student pick words to describe themselves and say what fraction of themselves that word is. They pick a color, fill in their key, and shade that amount of their fraction circle. For example: I am 2/8 kind. Students are provided a word bank, but I also encouraged students to come up with their own words!

In this practice students use their word and symbol bank to compare fractions with like denominators.

Students will add and subtract fractions that require them to find the common denominator. These resulting fractions do not need to be simplified, so that the focus can be on finding common denominators.

Students will estimate fraction sums and differences and place the cards under closer to 0, closer to 1/2, or closer to 1. A number line is provided, but other manipulatives would be helpful as well.