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Are you “cursed” by Math?

October 6, 2018 / Math
Introducing fractions to upper grades and middle school students does not have to be boring. Try this fun idea for starting or ending your fractions unit from the 2 Peas and a Dog blog.
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I read a lot of blogs via email. I love to see what other teachers are up to. The most common math concept that has been blogged about lately has been Fractions. I love Fractions now as a teacher, but as a student I am sure I found them confusing!

Meg at Fourth Grade Studio has been posting for a few weeks now all about her Fractions unit she is completing with her students. I have been reading her Fractions posts via email since they started. Her latest Fractions post involving student thinking on a number line got me thinking about how great that lesson would be to use as a pre-assessment of what my students already know about Fractions. 

I also got to thinking about my Fractions Unit introduction. I use the book “The Math Curse” by Jon Scieszka. In the book the narrator starts out on a normal Monday in Math class. Her teacher announces that everything could be seen as a math problem. The next day she wakes up and all day long she sees everything as a math problem. How long to catch the bus? The weight of something? etc. She feels she is cursed with math. 

This is how I am going to use this resource:
-read the story aloud to my 8th graders
-have them work in groups to solve the problems in the book
-at the end of the unit, their culminating task will be to create a math story similar to this to share with their reading buddies in Grade 3 to help them understand fractions. 

How do you make Fractions fun? interactive? make sense? 

Please comment below. I love to read all of your ideas. 

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11 thoughts on “Are you “cursed” by Math?”

  1. Jamie

    I LOVE this book! Jon Scieszka has the most amazingly fun books ever! I was lucky enough to meet him one – he is a hoot! Anywho, I teacher 5th-8th math resource to kiddos who are way below math level. Fractions have been a big push for us this year. We spent about a week working on a fraction number line from 0 to 1… now THAT was an experience! I made a blog post about it… probably easier to read that than for me to explain the whole process here 🙂

    And the fractions continue…

    Love your blog, and your puppers! TOO adorable!
    ~Jamie

    Mathematically yours,
    MissMathDork!

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