Easy to Use Fraction Activity – Winter themed
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Ready for a free fraction activity? This Google Slides fraction activity is the first of twelve free Christmas resources and printables that I will be giving away in the month of December. It is free for 24 hours – so click the image to grab it now!
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Read on to learn how this free fraction activity will help you and your students. Happy teaching!
What is the Free Fraction Activity?
This free fraction activity will help make December easy for you, and valuable for your students. These whimsical Google Slides will have your students comparing fractions and having fun at the same time! The penguins and polar bears will hook your students, and you’ll love the rigorous math questions and the ease of use! This free activity comes with a student slide deck AND a teacher slide deck to make modeling, teaching and grading about fractions a breeze!
Comparing fractions with unlike denominators can be a difficult skill for students, and this fraction activity will give students plenty of practice. This deck includes 20 fraction questions based on released items from 4th grade state tests, making it a great review for fifth grade and solid test prep for 4th, or even a fraction extension for 3rd graders ready for this step. The questions are word problems, fill-in-the-blank problems, multiple choice and true/false. The rigor is high, and the variety of the problems will engage learners!
Why Google Slides?
- Engagement! Get away from boring worksheets and use digital to elevate practice to an activity. Because Google Slides are interactive, students will be more engaged in the activity, and that leads to greater understanding of this important fraction concept. The colors are also key for engaging learners, especially visual learners. And the cute Christmas penguins and polar bears will make kids smile.
- Rigor! There are multiple formats to the questions in this fraction activity, and that variety increases the rigor and the engagement. Students are not passive learners, they are active – dragging and dropping, typing, circling…. That rigor will help students deepen their understanding of how to compare fractions, and lead to better retention and transition.
- Ease! Google Slides are also easy for you to use. They are so simple to assign, and if the copy machine is down, you don’t care! This is a paperless activity! They are also simple to grade, especially if you use Google Classroom. However you assign this fraction activity, I recommend printing out the included Answer Key and keeping it handy as a reference. It will make grading simple and quick!
Check out this blog post for more tips and ideas for how to use Google Slides in your classroom.
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Fractions are such a key concept for students, so I have plenty of digital fraction activities in my TPT store. Your choices include BOOM Cards, Google Forms and Google Slides. Check them out today and make teaching fractions the best part of your year!
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I hope this free fraction activity, and the 11 other free resources I’m giving away in December help you have a wonderful holiday season, and your students too. Happy teaching!
Susan
