Fractions in grade 6
Fractions in the 6th Class are not only a horror for schoolchildren, but also for some parents, because it is important to illustrate a fraction and to develop the mathematical laws that apply to fractions.
The fractions in the 6. Class - notes
With the fractions and the fraction calculation it goes in the 6. Class for the first time about the natural Counting from the primary school and the associated basic arithmetic operations.
- Here, abstraction skills and understanding of numbers are required, because your child or your students must have an idea win from fractions - often not an easy step, which is also made more difficult by fears and rejection by adults will.
- Indeed, it is not always easy to get an idea of how big or how small such a fraction is. And the laws of calculation are not always easy to understand.
Conclusion: Take some time to introduce the fractions in class 6, because your students are actually entering a completely new number range.
Fractions - possible introductory ideas
In the common math books, school books and also on the Internet there are countless ideas on how to make a fraction number understandable to children or students. These are everyday variants, but also abstract possibilities.
There are several ways to convert fractions to decimal numbers. So you can possibly ...
- With the "cake method", a cake is divided into several pieces. The idea behind it is always sharing among several people. Variants also use pizzas or other things such as a lot of candy. Of course, this idea only lives in the learner's imagination, because nothing is actually split here. And: Difficulties in this case are fractions like 3/5 or 2/7.
- A practical model is the "chocolate bar". Most tablets can be easily broken into several pieces. You can easily (depending on the board) use the fractions 1/6, 1/3 (or 1/20 or 1/24) and show the proportion.
- And the meaning of 3/4 quickly becomes apparent: divide the board into 4 parts and then take 3 of them. And you shouldn't forget two advantages of this method: On the one hand, fractions like 6/5 can be shown with several tables (learning effect: fractions can also be larger than 1). And on the other hand, after the learning unit, the chocolate is (fairly!) Distributed among everyone. You should therefore ensure that there are sufficient quantities.
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