Fractions are all around us!
Walk around the house, yard and neighborhood with your child. Where do you see fractions? What would you call one part of the whole? For example, one rectangular stepping stone of 13 equally sized stepping stones would be 1/13th of the stepping stones. What if the objects are different sizes? Can they still be represented as a fraction? In the video, Kate represents one black key on the piano as one out of the total number of black keys. However, one white key can’t be represented as a fraction of all of the white keys since they are different sizes. Can you represent the object in more than one way? For example ⅕ is equivalent to 2/10. Can you see this in the object?
This activity is inspired by Mindset Mathematics Curriculum, Book 3, I spy 1/2.
