Miss Spacht’s Fourth Grade Unit on

Fractions!
Hello Families!
For the next two weeks your children will be learning all about fractions. Fractions are a
very important part of everyday life, they are used almost daily! For example, when your
children help make recipes or when you have to decide how to cut a cake into equal parts.
During the fractions unit, your children will be introduced to the specific parts of a fraction,
such as numerator and denominator. They will also look at writing fractions on a number
line and using fraction tiles/bar to see the values of fractions. They will also be adding and
subtracting fractions with like denominators as well as adding mixed numbers with like
denominators. To complete this unit on fractions and to see how fractions can be applied in
real life, your children will be creating their own fraction pizzas! During this activity, the
students will show their knowledge of fractions when they each create their own personal
pizzas and real life fraction problems about their pizzas. If you have any questions or
concerns you can email or call me anytime, my contact information can be found on the
school website.

Below you will find the schedule of the unit plan and other resource/activities to support
your child’s learning.
Unit Vocabulary
Fraction- A fraction is part of a whole, a
piece of something larger
Fraction Bar/Tiles- A fraction bar/tiles
can be paper or blocks and are segmented
Math Activities to Do at Home
to show the value of a fraction
 Maketo
Math Websites a batch of cookies
Discover More About
Numerator- A numerator is the top
number in a fraction Fractions
 Create paper shapes and cut them
Children’s
 IXL Literature About
into different Fractions
values of fractions
Denominator- A denominator is the
bottom number in a fraction https://www.ixl.com/
 Play “I’m Thinking of a Fraction”
 SplashLearn
Like Denominator- A like denominator is where you describe a fraction value
https://www.splashlearn.com/
the same denominator for a group of and guess what it is
Cool Math
  Adler, 4 Kids
D. (1996). Fraction fun.
fractions
https://www.coolmath4kids.com/m
 Play “Hide and Seek Fractions”
Mixed Number- A mixed number is a Holiday House.
ath-help/fractions
 Sort objects into different fraction
whole number with a proper fraction   Dodds, D. (2009). Full house: An
Math Games
groups
https://www.mathgames.com/fract
invitation to fractions.
ions
 Einhorn, E. (2014). Fractions in
 Math Cats
disguise: A math adventure.
http://www.mathcats.org/ideabank
/fractionsites.html
 Mills, C. (2012). Fractions =
trouble!. Square Fish.
 Neuschwander, C. (2017). Sir
cumference and the fraction faire.