📊Math G3 L6.5 🤔Explore A - Fractions Equivalent to Whole Numbers

For this lesson you will need The Full House recording sheet found in the lesson materials.

Part 1

As you listen to the story:

• color in and label each room with a fraction as they are filled by guests.

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Fraction Full House Read Aloud Links to an external site.

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What is the last fraction in the house?

• $\frac{6}{6}$

Why?

• $\frac{6}{6}$= 1 and the house is full.

Now let's model the pieces of strawberry cake.

How many pieces of cake did the guests eat?

• $\frac{5}{6}$

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How many pieces of cake are left?

• $\frac{1}{6}$

After Miss Bloom eats her piece, how many pieces have been eaten?

• $\frac{6}{6}$

What does this fraction mean?

• $\frac{6}{6}$= 1
• 1 whole cake has been eaten.

Part 2

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In Full House: An Invitation to Fractions, Miss Bloom runs the Strawberry Inn.  

Now her business is very successful, so she decides to open the Blueberry Inn next door.  This inn also has six rooms.

Copy the fraction model into your journal.

The blue frame represents the Blueberry Inn and the Red Frame represents the Strawberry Inn.

Our whole is 1 inn.

How many rooms are available in one inn?

• 6

What is the fraction when one inn is full?

• $\frac{6}{6}$

Why?

• Because the inn has been partitioned into six parts or rooms; and all rooms are filled.

$\frac{6}{6}$is equivalent to what?

• 1; one whole inn is filled.

What is the fraction when both inns are filled?

• $\frac{12}{6}$

Why is the fraction $\frac{12}{6}$and not $\frac{12}{12}$?

• Because the whole is one inn.  The inn has been partitioned into 6 rooms.

What number is equivalent to$\frac{12}{6}$?

• 2

Why?

• 2 whole inns are filled.

What would be the fraction if a third inn, the Raspberry Inn, filled up too?

• $\frac{18}{6}$

What whole number is this fraction?

• 3

Part 3

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Let's look at these three inns on a number line.

What will we need?

• The whole is between 0 and 1.
• We will need from 0, 1, 2, 3; because there are 3 inns total.
• Each whole will be partitioned into six equal sections--there are 6 rooms in each.
• Each tick mark will be a label of sixths.

Copy this number line into your journal.  Make sure you have the tick marks equal distances.

What would the pattern be if a fourth inn was added?

Part 4

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Learn Zillion- Count the unit fractions of one whole using fraction strips. Links to an external site.

Learn Zillion - Express fractions equivalent to one using fraction strips Links to an external site.