We are now in the middle of the rational number unit (fractions).  This is an important unit, and predictive of future math performance, so I try to make sure we give this unit its due.  Today we were playing a game called “fraction track.” You draw a card with a fraction on it, and you try to break it up to move as many chips as possible to one or two (depending on the version you are playing.) You get a point for each chip you get to one or two, and two or three people are playing on one game board.  The parts to the game are in the Unit 4 Math folder in Classroom in Google Drive. Try to make time to play it, it’s fun.

Part of the initial activity is that you have to finish setting up the first side of the board. The two sides of the board are in the unit workbook, but there are missing fractions which you have to fill in by using equivalencies and measuring the distance between two given fractions.  After you are done, you can play. (the directions are full size in Google Classroom.)

For closure of this activity, we projected the board on the board and looked at the shape of the space left when you “connect the dots,” that is, the unit fractions.  We made the mirror image on the other side. Here’s what it looks like:

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