Course Diary Instructions for Week 3 a) Fraction Kit Include a picture of this week's labelled fraction kit. If you missed lecture 3, prepare five identical strips of paper of different colours and follow the instructions from the slides. You can pick up strips from me during a future class, or cut 5 strips of your own paper. b) Billiards Include a picture of this week's completed billiards activity (template and table). c) Equivalent Fractions Include a picture of an object or design that is naturally divided into parts so that you could use it to explain equivalent fractions. This means that the parts and equivalences must be visible directly on the object. Examples can include windows, egg cartons, tires, chocolate bars, the gas indicator in a car, etc. Describe one fraction in three equivalent ways or two fractions in two ways each. d) Fraction Feasting Time to eat your math homework! Your future students will enjoy it if you do math with food. Prepare or purchase a plate of food that is served whole but can easily be cut into equal pieces. Examples: pizza, quesadillas, flatbread, pitas, sandwiches, cake, etc. The point is that you will be illustrating the process of fraction feasting by describing pictures with fractions. 1) Take a picture of your whole serving. This whole corresponds to 1. 2) Divide your serving into (approximately) four equal parts. Take away one of them. How much of the original serving do you have left? Take a picture and write a fraction statement that represents the situation. Describe with words and a fraction statement (not actually cutting) another way in which you could have cut your whole and the number of pieces you would have had to take away in order to end up with the same fraction of your serving. 3) Now take away one half of what you have left. How much of the original serving do you have now? Take a picture and write a fraction statement that represents the situation. (Hint: OF means multiply.) 4) Finally, take away a third of what you have left. How much of the original serving do you have? Take a picture and write a fraction statement that represents the situation. Q SearchExamples of Entries b) Billiards (yours will be in paper and pencil) 10 % & Rows 10 10 2 3 3 4 3 5 3 3 4 5 6 6 7 8 Columns 6 3 2 4 5 3 6 7 6 7 10 14 11 12 End pocket -D C B D ) B B D C C B C D CCC CD Contacts 11 8 8 3 10 5 12 8 10 18 5 Squares 0 30 24 6 12 12 15 15 6 21 12 35 30 42 77 24 Visited c) Equivalent fractionsc) Equivalent fractions One fraction expressed in three ways: The plate shown below found in the Aga Khan Museum is naturally divided into eights. The portion highlighted in red represents 1 2 4 2 4 8 MBOR - Two fractions, each represented in two ways: The door of my living room is naturally divided into fifteenths. The portion of this door marked in red represents 15 3 15 The portion marked in blue represents 6 U/ N 15 MB