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TEKS 3.3E - solve problems involving partitioning an object or a set of objects among two or more recipients using pictorial representations of fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8
Explain
Talk with your partner about how you could take a set of 8 coins and partition them to separate different fractions. What coins would you need? What fractions would the represent?
Look
The image below shows two-eighths. Talk to your partner about how you know this picture shows 2/8. What color represents the numerator? How did you find the denominator?
Associate
If you had three quarters, three nickels, and two pennies, how much money would you have How would you represent each quantity as a fraction?
Build
If your teacher asked you to draw a representation of three-fourths, how would you do that? Talk to you partner about at least three different ways to show three-fourths with fraction of a set.
Organize
Discuss with your partner how you could sort the five fraction representations into two categories. How did you choose when picture went in each category? Is there one representation that might fit in both categories?
Reflect
Discuss with your partner everything you know about fractions of a set. Talk about how they appear in everyday life.
Analyze
Talk to your partner about fractions of a set and what makes them similar and different from fractions of a whole. If you can, use the terms numerator and denominator in your description.
Extend
With your partner, represent each fraction below as a set. Discuss with your partner what you notice about each representation. How are they similar?
PEEPS Conversation Starters
After your partner talks, try using one of these response stems to keep the conversation going:
Paraphrase: "You think that..." or "What I understood you say was that..."
Elaborate: "Tell me more about..." or "What does ___ mean?"
Examples: "A real-world example of this is..." or "You can see an example of this..."
Piggyback: "Another way to think about that is..." or "This reminds me of..."
Synthesize: "We can agree on..." or "The main point of what we learned is..."