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🧮 3rd Grade · Math3.NF.A.2Unit 7: Fractions as numbers

Fractions on a number line

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🎯 Objective: Students place fractions on a number line from 0 to 1.

Lesson outline

  1. Partition 0 to 1 into fourths on a floor number line.
  2. Label 1/4, 2/4, 3/4; note that 4/4 sits at 1.
  3. Place fractions on paper number lines with different denominators.
  4. Exit: place 2/3 on a number line.

Lesson 3 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.2

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➗ Fraction calculator📚 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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