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Fraction Foundry
Students cut a whole into equal pieces and lay track along a number line, so 3/4 stops being “3 out of 4 slices” and becomes a place on the line.
- Subject
- Math
- Grades
- 3–5
- Time
- 13 min
- Skill
- Fractions as numbers on the number line
Standards it covers
- 3.NF.A.2Place fractions on the number line by laying equal pieces from 0: 3/4 is three pieces of size 1/4.
- 3.NF.A.3Equal fractions share one point. Compare fractions with the same top or bottom, with reasons and symbols.
- 4.NF.A.1Grade 4: make equivalent fractions by cutting every piece into more pieces.
- 4.NF.A.2Grade 4: compare two fractions by the piece each is missing to reach 1.
