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🧮 3rd Grade · Math3.NF.A.3aUnit 8: Equivalent & comparing fractions

Equivalent fractions with models

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🎯 Objective: Students show that fractions like 1/2 and 2/4 are equal using strips.

Lesson outline

  1. Line up fraction strips for 1/2, 2/4 and 4/8.
  2. Find all strips that match 1/3 and 3/4.
  3. Record equivalent pairs on a chart.
  4. Exit: two fractions equal to 1/2.

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.3a

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Recognize and generate simple equivalent fractions
  • Compare fractions with the same numerator or denominator

✅ 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 “Equivalent & comparing fractions”

  1. Equivalent fractions with models
  2. Equivalent fractions on number lines
  3. Compare with the same denominator
  4. Compare with the same numerator
  5. Fractions in word problems

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