{"id":7069,"date":"2013-02-26T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/2013\/02\/fractions-day-15-composing-and.html"},"modified":"2018-12-06T17:14:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:14:17","slug":"fractions-day-15-composing-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/fractions-day-15-composing-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Fractions Day 14:  Composing and Decomposing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\nToday was a math rotations day in grade 4 . . . I started the day with a minilesson and then we broke up into three math groups to rotate around the following centers:<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\">\n&#8211;\u201cteacher time\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\">\n&#8211;problem solving<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\">\n&#8211;&lt;\/&gt;\/= activity<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\nToday\u2019s minilesson focused on \u201ccomposing\u201d and \u201cdecomposing\u201d &nbsp;using unit fractions, and I was hopeful that it would go smoothly.&nbsp; I was fairly confident based on the work we have done over the last few weeks that the students would easily manage this concept, and my students did not disappoint me.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\nWe reviewed the idea of \u201cunit fraction\u201d and used the fraction bars in Kidspiration to model different ways to build fractions.&nbsp; We talked about how you can build or \u201ccompose\u201d new fractions with unit fractions (which I also call counting fractions\u2026just like we count WHOLE numbers, we can count FRACTIONS too!).&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMAGE_8EDAC70D-7F3A-4051-AE3C-8BF36B7D648B-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMAGE_8EDAC70D-7F3A-4051-AE3C-8BF36B7D648B.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMAGE_DE5F8444-2818-4001-A625-30C8B53C6735-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMAGE_DE5F8444-2818-4001-A625-30C8B53C6735.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\nWe then tied the fraction bars to a more traditional adding and subtracting notation\u2014we modeled by counting unit fraction groups to add and by crossing out fractions to subtract.&nbsp; Students seemed to be really understanding, so I felt ready to send them off to do our math rotations.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\nHere is our rotation board:<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMAGE_25E6F717-DC91-4625-947D-E620EBFA4E9D-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMAGE_25E6F717-DC91-4625-947D-E620EBFA4E9D.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n(I\u2019ve flipped the top cards backward to hide the names).&nbsp; Today\u2019s groups were picked based on needs\u2014I knew that I wanted to differentiate the \u201cteacher time\u201d rotation.&nbsp; Some days my groups are mixed ability&#8211;it all depends on what I am trying to accomplish. &nbsp;For most of the investigations we have done during this unit, my groups are entirely mixed by gender, ability, and so on.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\nSo here were our rotations in &nbsp;nutshell!<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n1. &nbsp;The &#8220;teacher time&#8221; rotation was with me. &nbsp;We worked on reviewing the material taught in the mini lesson by having students try different combinations of addition and subtraction in their notebooks. &nbsp;For my strugglers, we started really slow and brought the Smartboard back up with the fraction bars so we could make the tie. &nbsp;By the time they were finished, we had written all sorts of different equations with addition and subtraction with like denominators. &nbsp;We drilled in the concept that we can only add and subtract fractions with equal parts&#8211;or else we need to do some extra work! &nbsp;We showed how adding 1\/2 and 1\/4 cannot possibly be 2\/6. &nbsp;We worked to come up with many equations that equaled &#8220;5\/8&#8221; such as &#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\">\n1\/8 + 2\/8 + 2\/8&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\">\nand&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\">\n7\/8 &#8211; 2\/8&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\">\nand&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\">\n4\/8 + 1\/8&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\nand so on. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMAGE_9DCF97A7-099E-4296-B7D8-7CEBE7212DBC-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMAGE_9DCF97A7-099E-4296-B7D8-7CEBE7212DBC.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\nThe other two groups were ready to move beyond this. &nbsp;I started by adding in both improper fractions and mixed numbers for them and things seemed to be moving pretty smoothly. &nbsp;I asked them to find many equations with the solution 1 3\/4 and they handled that as well. &nbsp;I then decided to work on true\/false problems with them so I threw out problems such as&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\">\n5\/8 + 2\/8 &lt; 3 x 1\/3 &nbsp;True or False?<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\">\nand<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\">\n4 1\/4 &#8211; 3 3\/4 &gt; 1\/2 &nbsp;True or False?<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\nThe students handled the multiplication with ease&#8211;they have such good number sense that they realize that three &#8220;1\/3&#8217;s&#8221; is a whole&#8211;no computation required!<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\nWe then started playing more with improper fractions and the students tried writing problems to stump each other&#8211;tons of fun and very developmentally appropriate for each group. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n2. &nbsp;The second rotation was a free explore station with fraction cards and &lt;, &gt;, and = cards. &nbsp;I gave the students a number of different ways to interact with the cards&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n&#8211;they could flip two cards over and decide which symbol would go between them<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n&#8211;they could flip 5 cards and put them in order smallest to largest<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n&#8211;they could flip two cards over and find 2 more cards that would fit between them<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n&#8211;they could come up with their own sequencing practice<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\nAnd practice they did! &nbsp;Each time I asked this group to rotate, they MOANED! &nbsp;Can you believe? &nbsp;They MOANED that they had to stop sequencing fractions! &nbsp;I heard some fantastic discussion and some very creative thinking. &nbsp;One group even decided to try to take a larger fraction card and find smaller ones that they could &#8220;decompose&#8221; the larger one into. &nbsp;Really? &nbsp;So much fun! &nbsp;For those of you who have purchased the fraction sequencing set, this is one of the activities in that resource. &nbsp;I will include it in the unit as well.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMAGE_94DC6A7F-4ECB-465E-8617-821700CF3D0F-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMAGE_94DC6A7F-4ECB-465E-8617-821700CF3D0F.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMAGE_4F02FB14-5FE8-488F-B786-A2D765DFDC84-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMAGE_4F02FB14-5FE8-488F-B786-A2D765DFDC84.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n3. &nbsp;The final rotation was a problem solving station. &nbsp;Because I felt the students have enough number sense and addition\/subtraction skills now, I was ready to send them off to try to tackle some word problems with fractions. &nbsp;I will include these problems in my unit, but for those of you who aren&#8217;t interested in purchasing the big unit in a few weeks (I promise I will work as hard as I can to get it done in the next 1-2 weeks), the set of word problems IS available in my store now. &nbsp;I will put the link at the bottom of this post. &nbsp;I let the students buddy up if they wanted. &nbsp;I was super pleased with what I saw! &nbsp;I will save one example of some great teamwork for another post!<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMAGE_2296E521-D2F4-4339-8B41-A1A5F2185DAE-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMAGE_2296E521-D2F4-4339-8B41-A1A5F2185DAE.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\nHere is the teaser for the next post! &nbsp;This was the &#8220;a ha&#8221; problem for one of my students today!<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\nSo, I hope you get a taste for one way I organize my math time . . . many of my lessons have been very &#8220;investigation&#8221; oriented&#8211;today was a more &#8220;guided math&#8221; approach which allowed me to really dig in and see how far certain students can be pushed. &nbsp;Tomorrow&#8211;more problem solving and small group pulling based on the 3 exit slips I have given this week. &nbsp;I have a few petunias who need a little more work with equivalent fractions and comparing fractions&#8211;so while the class has rotations tomorrow, I will be pulling small groups instead of having a &#8220;teacher time&#8221; rotation. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\nThanks for stopping by! &nbsp;Stay tuned . . .<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/BlogSignature-2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/theteacherstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/BlogSignature-2.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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