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4th Grade: Adding Fractions

• Title of the book(s) to be used:
Give Me Half! By Stuart J. Murphy
Polar Bear Math by Ann Nagda and Cindy Bickel

• Other Materials (for activities)
Liquid glue, crayons, pencil with eraser, ruler, stickers

• TEKS Objectives: §111.16. Mathematics, Grade 4.
• The student will construct concrete models of fractions, compare fractional parts of whole objects or sets of objects in a problem situation using concrete models, use fraction names and symbols to describe fractional parts of whole objects or sets of objects, and construct concrete models of equivalent fractions for fractional parts of whole objects.

• Procedure:
a. Warm-up Activities:
• The student will read Give Me Half! By Stuart J. Murphy.
• The student will then look through Polar Bear Math by Ann Nagda and Cindy Bickel.
• I will have the student review what they learned about fractions the week before by having them fill out a Comparing Fractions book.

b. Main Activities:
• For the first activity, Adding Fraction with the Same Denominator. My student will add the fractions that have the same denominator.
• For the second activity, Adding Fraction with Different Denominator. My student will add the fractions with different denominators.

c. Follow-up Activity:
• As a follow-up activity, I will have the student fill out their Fraction Journal. The student will write what they learned.

d. Assessment:
• To assess my student’s understanding, I will use the game Polar Math. I will play the game with the student. The student will go first and draw a math card. The math card will have a fraction addition problem. If the student answers the addition problem correctly they will get move their polar bear as many icebergs as the math card says to move. Then it will be my turn to go. I will have to draw a math card, answer an addition problem as well, and move my polar bear as many spaces as the card says to move.

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