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🧮 4th Grade · Math4.NF.A.2Unit 6: Equivalent fractions & comparing

Benchmark fractions

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🎯 Objective: Students compare fractions to 0, 1/2 and 1.

Lesson outline

  1. Sort fractions as less than, equal to or more than 1/2.
  2. Discuss reasoning: 3/8 is less than 4/8; 5/9 is more than 4.5/9.
  3. Compare pairs using benchmarks.
  4. Exit: compare 3/8 and 5/9.

Lesson 3 of 4 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

4.NF.A.2

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 4 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Explain why fractions are equivalent using models and multiplication
  • Compare fractions with different numerators and denominators

✅ 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: Equivalent fractions📚 All 4th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Equivalent fractions & comparing”

  1. Equivalent fractions with models
  2. Multiply to find equivalents
  3. Benchmark fractions
  4. Common denominators

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