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First Grade Explores Fractions

5/10/2019

 
​First graders started diving into fraction concepts through explorations of equal shares.  They started by splitting shapes up into equal parts.  They asked themselves questions like: can a square be divided equally into two shares?  How about a circle?  The focus of first grade is exploring and naming halves and fourths.  Each child completed a challenge problem, wondering who might get a bigger share of a square if four people shared, or if two people shared.  The goal of this type of exploration is to expose students to the idea that more shares means smaller shares; the more times a shape (or share) is divided, the smaller it gets.
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