Goals and Objectives:
Cognitive Objectives
Students should be able to: · Define a whole and a half · Recognize that a fourth is smaller than a third · Equally divide a circle and rectangle into ½, 1/3, 1/4 · Divide 6 cookies among either 1,2, or 4 friends · Explain how they divided they cookies · Connect their work of dividing their cookies with the book that we read · Identify where fractions are in their day-to-day lives · Combine prior knowledge of fractions with everyday objects around themselves · Connect the numerical expression of a fraction to the symbolic representation in a shape divided into parts · Explain how they know whether something is equally or not equally divided · Distinguish equal parts from unequal parts by looking at them |
Physical Development Objectives
Students should be able to: · Equally divide a rectangle and circle · Equally share a specified amount of objects · Color in any fraction involving halves, thirds and fourths · Divide 6 cookies among either 1,2, or 4 friends · Identify where fractions are in their day-to-day lives |
Socio-emotional Objectives
Students should be able to: · Share something equally between their friends · Realize when sharing it is important to be fair and equal in all parts · Explain how they divided they cookies · Connect fractions with everyday objects |
Common Core Guidelines:
Mathematics 1st Grade: CCSS.Math.Content.1.G.A.3: Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, fourths, and quarters, and use the phrases half of, fourth of, and quarter of. Describe the whole as two of, or four of the shares. Understand for these examples that decomposing into more equal shares creates smaller shares. Language Arts 1st Grade: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.7 Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas. GLCE: Social Studies First Grade: 1 – C2.0.1Explain how decisions can be made or how conflicts might be resolved in fair and just ways (e.g., majority rules). Looking Ahead to what they are working towards in 2nd Grade: CCSS.Math.Content.2.G.A.3 Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape. |