Text Set #4

TEXT SET: FRACTIONS

CRYSTAL LAWRENCE

BOOKS:

Funny and Fabulous Fraction Stories

By Dan Greenburg

This is a book by Dan Greenburg that is perfect for students who are struggling with fractions.  It has 30 different stories that can be reproduced because it contains problems that can be solved for practice.  They are fun and entertaining stories that will make the kids forget that they are actually doing math.

Appropriate for Grades 3-7

Jump, Kangaroo, Jump

By Stuart J. Murphy and Kevin O’Malley

Students can relate to the characters in this book that are participating in Field Day events and have to make fractions when they are dividing up their teams.  The fractions are shown in the text and in the beautiful illustrations.

Appropriate for Grades 2-4

Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Fractions Book

By Jerry Pallotta and Rob Bolster

Your students will love learning about fractions using chocolate bars!  This book shows numerous ways to divide the Hershey bar to show different fractions.  Even with the mess of melting chocolate and the sugar high to contend with, this is a fun alternative to using traditional manipulatives as a way to teach fractions.

Appropriate for Grades K-3

The Wishing Club:  A Story About Fractions

By Donna Jo Napoli and Anna Currey

This super cute story is about a group of children wishing on a star in the nighttime sky.  Only a fraction of their dreams seem to be coming true until they see a pattern in their fractions and team up to get their greatest wish granted.  This certainly is a cute and magical story to help children learn fractions.

Appropriate for Grades K-3

Pizza Counting

By Christina Dobson; Illustrated by Matthew Holmes

Pizza Counting is a fun book with colorfully decorated pizzas as illustrations.  Each page poses math problems, some easier than others.  This book starts with easy fractions, moves to adding fractions, and even includes comparing and contrasting fractions.

Appropriate for Grades K-4

TECHNOLOGY:

This is an amazing web site for teachers’ that provides dozens of picture books that goes well with any fraction unit. 

Primarily a teacher resource

http://www.the-best-childrens-books.org/teaching-fractions.html

This is a great game for students who need practice multiplying and reducing fractions. It’s great practice in an interactive way.

Appropriate for Grades 3 and up

http://www.aplusmath.com/flashcards/fractions-mult.html

This site is a Florida based educational web site that is filled with games and activities for practicing fractions. Fun and interactive site!

Appropriate for Grades 3 and up

http://www.okaloosa.k12.fl.us/oakhill/fractions.html

The Visual Fraction web site is a great educational source for teachers and students alike.  Teachers can find information they need to help teach skills by modeling, and they can print off lessons and worksheets to assist them.  It includes progress sheets and is also aligned to the CCSS.  Students can practice skills in a fun way by playing on the games page.  Good resource for everyone.

Appropriate for Grades 3 and up

http://www.visualfractions.com/

This is a great web site that not only includes hundreds of practice activities on fraction skills, but it also contains language arts practice as well.  This site is very interactive and divided into grade levels, so students are learning skills that they need on their level. 

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