Students label and place halves, thirds, quarters, sixths and eighths on number lines, go past 1, and find fractions that share a point.
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Students name and place fractions on number lines, starting with a worked example that splits 0 to 1 into quarters and shows 4/4 at the same point as 1. They fill in missing fractions, mark fractions such as 2/3 and 5/8, and on page 2 work on lines that run to 2 and 3, with whole numbers above and fractions below. A trail problem with a post at every eighth of the way asks how far a walker at post 5 has gone. The key adds a whole-class floor number line activity.
The key's warning: a sixths line has 7 tick marks but 6 spaces. Students who count tick marks write sevenths, so have them count the spaces between 0 and 1.
On the past-1 lines, have students say the fractions aloud from 0: one third, two thirds, three thirds, four thirds. Hearing three thirds land on the 1 shows why 4/3 comes after it.
Ways to adjust the number line work for different students.
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Students label missing fractions on number lines, mark given fractions, continue past 1 (such as 4/3 and 5/2) and solve a trail problem in eighths of a mile; fractions past 1 stay as improper fractions and are not written as mixed numerals.
Students use matching number lines to find fractions at the same point, such as 3/4 and 6/8, and 1/3 and 2/6; links between fractions and decimals are not covered.
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