This year especially, I've found my year 8 and 9 students don't have the understanding of fractions that they should! Considering they should have this understanding of fractions, decimals and percentages at a year 5/6 level, it's SCARRY!
One of the more engaging ways I check for student understanding is to use my Jumping Fractions 5 Ways game throughout relevant units and as a general review throughout the term.
The reason I check for understanding this way is that all students can match the visual representation with the fraction. Then from there the language and it becomes either the percentage, decimal OR simplified fraction that they struggle with.
To ensure this game covers the various learning abilities, I split it into four sets.
- Set 1 - 83 cards - Match tenths fractions in all representations
- Set 2 - 31 cards - Match fifths fractions in all representations
- Set 3 - 25 cards – Match quarters fractions in all representations
- Set 4 - 9 cards – Additional simplified fraction cards to add to each level.
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You are so right about the fraction knowledge (or lack thereof) - my little Yr 1er's struggle at just the concept of 1/2!!! And C2C only has us covering it twice so far - that's it for fractions.
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I've found C2C to be allll over the place. We have had to adapt the C2C units to suit our year 8 and 9s as what was done in year 10 is now year 9, but then there is no Year 11 and 12 ACARA yet, so it seems that we're pushing them so hard, with no end goal that's linked for the year 9 and 10s!
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I LOVE any fraction, %, decimal games that can make learning the concepts fun. It's so tough on those lower level learners. :)
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