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🧮 4th Grade · Math4.NF.A.1Unit 6: Equivalent fractions & comparing

Multiply to find equivalents

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🎯 Objective: Students generate equivalent fractions by multiplying numerator and denominator by the same number.

Lesson outline

  1. Explain why multiplying top and bottom by the same number keeps the value (cutting each piece into n smaller pieces).
  2. Practice generating and simplifying.
  3. Use a fraction calculator to check.
  4. Exit: 5/6 = ?/24.

Lesson 2 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.1

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➗ Fraction calculator📚 All 4th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Equivalent fractions & comparing”

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  3. Benchmark fractions
  4. Common denominators

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