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🧮 3rd Grade · Math3.NF.A.1Unit 7: Fractions as numbers

Equal parts of a whole

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🎯 Objective: Students partition shapes into equal parts and name unit fractions.

Lesson outline

  1. Fold paper strips into halves, thirds, fourths, sixths and eighths.
  2. Name one part as a unit fraction: 1/4 means one of 4 equal parts.
  3. Shade unit fractions; check that parts are equal.
  4. Exit: shade 1/6 of a rectangle.

Lesson 1 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

3.NF.A.1

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 3 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Understand a unit fraction 1/b as one part of a whole split into b equal parts
  • Place fractions on a number line

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Fractions on a number line📚 All 3rd Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Fractions as numbers”

  1. Equal parts of a whole
  2. Fractions a/b
  3. Fractions on a number line
  4. Fractions greater than 1
  5. Whole numbers as fractions

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