Teach your students all there is to know about unit fractions using this detailed set of teaching slides.
Teach Unit Fractions to Your Students
Do you need to focus on unit fractions this term? We have you covered with this set of teaching slides that has been created by a teacher with fantastic visuals to help teach the concept of unit fractions to your young mathematicians.
This 18-slide teaching presentation will help you teach your students the concept of unit fractions. These slides clearly explain and show to students about fractions, including the following:
- All about equal parts and unequal parts, activities to consolidate their knowledge that fractions need to be equal parts.
- That unit fractions are one part of the whole.
- The numerator always being 1 in a unit fraction and why.
- Halves, Thirds, Fourths, Fifths, Sixths, Eighths
Using This Unit Fractions Slide Deck in Your Classroom
This slide deck is an excellent starting point for teaching your students about the basics around unit fractions. Due to the amount of information in the presentation, we recommend covering the content over several lessons. This will enable you to explore each unit fractions greater depth and provide your students with tangible, hands-on activities to use after learning each unit fraction..
Here are some additional activities you might like to consider in conjunction with this unit fraction slide deck:
- Matching Fairy Bread visuals with the correct unit fraction and it’s word ie. halves, quarters, etc.
- Create a Unit Fraction Flipbook for each of the unit fractions they are learning about.
- Create a Fraction Robot using different types of unit fractions.
- Unit Fraction Spin and Color activity where students will use a pencil and a paper clip to spin up a unit fraction and then find the correct visual to color in to represent the unit fraction they spun.
Download and Teach Today!
This resource is available to download as an easy to use Google Slide file.
This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and a Teach Starter collaborator.
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