More Geoboard Fractions
Identify the symbols for halves, quarters, thirds, fifths, and tenths including fractions greater than 1.
Identify symbols for any fraction, including tenths, hundredths, thousandths, and those greater than 1.
Find equivalent fractions and order fractions.
Number Framework Stages 5 - 7
Rubber bands
Fractions on Geoboards (Material Master 4-20)
Background
Unlike the Creating Farctions activity, creating unit fractions for thirds, fifths, sixths, sevenths ... on geoboards requires the students to use multiplicative thinking to define what one whole means.
For example, with fifths, only 15, 10, and five squares on the geoboard may be used to represent a whole. The diagram shows a whole with an area of 15 squares that has been divided into fifths.
Activity
Get the students to create a variety of unit fractions for thirds, fifths, sixths, and sevenths. Record the answers on geoboard sheets.