Brick by Brick: Grade 3 Fraction Skills

Does your learner love to build?  Then have your child put those building bricks to use learning about fractions!  

In this interactive class, learners will use building bricks to lay a strong foundation for fraction skills.  This course will cover 3rd grade Common Core Standards for Number & Operations - Fractions.  Learners will be instructed using the research-based and highly effective CRA approach, moving through the concrete, representational, and abstract stages of learning to help them understand both the concepts and the procedures. Games and interactive websites like Blooket, Jamboard, and Nearpod will be used throughout the course to make practice fun and engaging.  Practice sheets (to be uploaded by the teacher) will need to be printed for each class.

Throughout each class and the course, learners will be assessed in a variety of ways to determine how well they are understanding the skills taught, and the unit will conclude with a summative assessment.  Learners may also be required to complete some additional practice outside of class hours.

To best meet each learner's needs, breakout rooms may be used for group work or for individual support from the teacher.  If your learner may not participate in a breakout room, let me before the start of the course so that I can adjust my lesson plans accordingly.

Unit Sequence
Topic 1: What is a fraction? (4 days)
•	dividing a whole into parts – use word problems to show real-world application
•	use models to create fractions – unit fractions, other fractions
•	identify fractions as part of a whole – representational
•	identify fractions on a number line
Topic 2: How are fractions related to whole numbers? (2 days)
•	use models to create one whole
•	decomposing one whole into unit fractions, both using models and on a number line
•	develop a pattern to determine a rule about making one whole
•	use models to create whole numbers
•	develop a pattern to determine a rule about making whole numbers greater than 1
Topics 1 & 2: Review & Assessment (1 day)
Topic 3: Equivalent fractions (2 days)
•	use models to create equivalent fractions for numbers less than 1
•	use double number lines to determine whether fractions are equivalent
•	express whole numbers as fractions
Topic 4: Compare fractions (2 days)
•	use models to compare fractions by reasoning about shape (must be from the same size whole)
•	determine rules for comparing fractions with the same numerators or denominators
Topics 1-4 Review & Assessment (1 day)

Materials that will be needed for each class are:
-assorted building bricks
-small platform on which to build (optional)
-pencil and crayons/colored pencils