Cub Reporter Message: Learning About Fractions

Written by Student #20

Hi parents, teachers and whoever else might be reading this.  This is #20 here.  I have an impulse to tell you something very important that we have been working on…EATING CANDY!  Nah i’m just kidding, though I wish eating candy WAS one of the things we were working on.  The real thing we are working on is fractions.  We haven’t gotten to adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing, but have been working on generating and figuring out equivalent fractions.  Actually, the more I think about it we DID eat candy.  On the first day of fractions we broke up, then ate Hershey bars.  On the second and third days we worked on generating equivalent fractions.  On the fifth and sixth days the class “added” fractions with shape blocks, for example:

(Editor’s note from Mr. Moss: This lesson presented a hexagon as the whole.  So a trapezoid was worth 1/2, and two halves equaled a whole.  A triangle was worth 1/6, because six of those blocks equaled one hexagon block.)  After that we worked on recognizing equivalent fractions for two or three day.  Most recently, we have been comparing fractions with benchmark numbers, for example:

I hope you have enjoyed (and understood) this edition of cub reporter updates.

Posted in Class Updates, Student News|By Jon Moss