LESSON PLAN

Operations with Fractions

Apothem Team

Grade 6 · Number

LESSON AT A GLANCE

Warm-up

5 min

Explore

15 min

Formalize

10 min

Practice

12 min

Exit ticket

3 min

Warm-up

Open with a short task that activates prior knowledge relevant to today’s concept.

Students investigate the concept using manipulatives, drawings, or partner discussion. Circulate and ask probing questions.

Bring ideas together as a class. Record key vocabulary and relationships on the board:

Operations with Fractions

Connect the exploration to the formal representation. Check for understanding before moving to practice.

Students work the practice set independently. Exit ticket: one targeted question on a slip of paper to check for understanding.

Students work the practice set independently. Exit ticket: one targeted question on a slip of paper to check for understanding.

TIP Prioritize discussion and sense-making over answer-getting. Let students wrestle with the idea first.

WORKED EXAMPLES

Example 1 — write a problem here.

Walk through the solution step by step.

Example 2 — write a second problem.

Students try this one with a partner.

MATERIALS

•Student workbooks or notebooks

•Manipulatives

•Practice worksheet (PDF)

•Board or projector

WATCH FOR

!Watch for overgeneralizations from prior units.

!Students may confuse similar-looking procedures — name the difference explicitly.