Fractions Unit Plan

Teachers: Brooke Webster & Tyla Milich

Rationale for unit: Assessment

According to the ACARA achievement standard children in year 4 & 5 need Formative:
to know and how to recognise common equivalent fractions. Children also Children will be assessed ongoing throughout the unit via observation,
are able to add and subtract fractions with the same denominator. questioning, conversation and photos. This will allow for the teacher to
ensure all children are understanding the task being asked of them.

Summative:
Students will be assessed through a test style sheet to check for
understanding.

Achievement standard
YEAR 4:

They recognise common equivalent fractions in familiar contexts and make connections between fraction and decimal notations up to
two decimal places. Students locate familiar fractions on a number line.

YEAR 5:

Students order decimals and unit fractions and locate them on number lines. They add and subtract fractions with the same denominator. Students
continue patterns by adding and subtracting fractions and decimals.
 UNIT SEQUENCE

Teaching focus: Learning activity: Assessment: Resources:

BROOKE PLACEMENT

LESSON 1 & 2

Prior knowledge / diagnostic Lesson 1: Student will identify Summative  1 x worksheet per child
fractions to inform their working out  Variety of coloured paper
Identifying fractions
in regular and irregular shapes
HOMEWORK: NOT APPLICABLE
Lesson 2: Students will manipulate
objects to create a cake displaying a
range of fractions to show their
thinking

LESSON 3 & 4

Equivalent fractions Students will manipulate objects to Formative  1 x self-assessment sheet

continue creating a cake displaying a  Variety of coloured paper
HOMEWORK: DRAFT OF FRACTION
range of fractions to show their
SHEET: INCLUDING EQUIVALENT
thinking. Students will complete a
self-assessment about their attitudes
and misconceptions to fractions prior
and now after

LESSON 5

Worded problems Students will use higher order Formative  Maths book
thinking skills to progress through a  Projector displaying sums
HOMEWORK: NOT APPLICABLE
series of worded questions to
formulate their answers, students
are required to visually and
numerically show their thinking

Adding fractions
HOMEWORK: 10 SUMS PRINTED
WITH CHILDREN TO COMPLETE
SELF ASSESSMENT OF:
EASY OKAY TRICKY
Adding fractions in worded
questions
HOMEWORK: NOT APPLICABLE
LESSON 6
Students will be explicitly taught how Formative  Maths book
to add common denominator  Projector displaying sums
fractions
Students will undertake examples as
a class before moving to working
individually. This will be
incorporating the wave approach
allowing students to move off at
their own pace
Students who have bene identified
are struggling will work with the
teacher and be assisted by: times
table chart and concrete objects
(counters)
LESSON 7
Students will be explicitly taught how Formative  Maths book
to convert in proper fractions into  Projector displaying sums
mixed numbers
Students will undertake examples as
a class before moving to working
individually. Students will complete a
self-assessment using the following
symbols:
 :/ 
Easy Okay Tricky

Adding mixed numbers
HOMEWORK: 10 SUMS PRINTED
FOR CHILDREN TO WORK
THROUGH
Revising mixed, in proper and
adding mixed numbers
HOMEWORK: NOT APPLICABLE
Students who have bene identified
are struggling will work with the
teacher and be assisted by: times
table chart and concrete objects
(counters)
LESSON 8 & 9
Students will be explicitly taught how Formative  Maths book
to convert mixed numbers into in  Projector displaying sums
proper fractions to be able to add
them together.
Students will work through a range
of problems that are varied in
difficulty to encourage high order
thinking
Students who have bene identified
are struggling will work with the
teacher and be assisted by: times
table chart and concrete objects
(counters)
LESSON 10
Students will revise how solve: in Summative  Maths book
proper, mixed and add mixed, they  Projector
will then work through a series of  Extension task sheet
questions.
Students will have the opportunity to
use these skills in real life situations
that are posed in worded questions.
 Allowing students to stretch and
show high order thinking
Students who have bene identified
are struggling will work with the
teacher and be assisted by: times
table chart and concrete objects
(counters)

LESSON 11

Bingo Children will participate in a class Formative  1 x bingo chart per child
game of fraction bingo to ensure  Counters per child
HOMEWORK: NOT APPLICABLE
they understand verbally how to
read fractions

TYLA PLACEMENT

LESSON 12

Adding fractions and arranging Re-cap of the addition of fractions. Formative  Maths book
them on a number line Students will answer addition of  Projector displaying sums
fraction sums and then arrange their  Taped number line on
HOMEWORK: NOT APPLICABLE
answers on a student number line ground

LESSON 13

Prior knowledge / diagnostic Students will receive a series of Formative  Maths book
worded questions where they will  Projector displaying sums
Subtraction of fractions
have to visually draw their answers
 Simple worded questions on the images presented

LESSON 14 & 15
Hands on subtraction of fractions Lesson 1: Students will use counters Formative  Maths book
lesson – explicit teaching to break-down the subtraction of  Projector displaying sums
fractions. They will explain and  Counters per child
 Competition
visually display their findings
HOMEWORK: NOT APPLICABLE
Lesson 2: Students will have to
manipulate objects on their desks (in
groups) to solve subtraction sums in
a competition-like games

LESSON 16

Addition and subtraction of Students will use dominos to Formative  Maths book
fractions – Domino effect/game influence their working out of the  Projector displaying sums
addition and subtraction of fractions.  Dominos
HOMEWORK: DRAFT OF FRACTION
Can they reverse the operations?
SHEET: INCLUDING EQUIVALENT

LESSON 17

Worded subtraction fractions Students will use critical and creative Formative  Maths book
questions thinking to answer worded questions  Projector displaying sums
in order to solve a mystery puzzle
HOMEWORK: NOT APPLICABLE

LESSON 18

Subtraction of decimals Students will be given a series of Formative  Maths book

decimal sums to subtract  Projector displaying sums
HOMEWORK: 10 SUMS PRINTED
(with/without calculators). Students
FOR CHILDREN TO WORK
will then swap with a partner to
THROUGH
assess their work, whole class to
discuss answers and reasoning

LESSON 19
 Worded subtraction of decimals
HOMEWORK: NOT APPLICABLE
Subtracting fractions and arranging
them on a number line
Test – mark test Thursday
Name flower fractions and
decimals
HOMEWORK: NOT APPLICABLE
Students will use critical and creative Formative  Maths book
thinking to answer worded questions  Projector displaying sums
in order to solve a mystery riddle  Hands-on game
LESSON 20 & 21
Lesson 1: Students will answer Formative (L1) / summative (L2)  Maths book
subtraction of fraction sums and  Projector displaying sums
then arrange their answers on a  Taped number line on
student number line ground
Lesson 2: Students will be assessed
on their addition and subtraction of
fractions and decimals
LESSON 22
Students would have coloured each Formative  Grid paper
letter of their names onto grid paper  Craft supplies (card paper,
in the previous art lesson. This maths scissors, glue etc.)
lesson, they will use each letter to
determine the fraction of how much
of the letter is taking up the space of
grid paper. Then, they will glue their
grid paper letters onto a poster and
use coloured paper to create a stem
and leaves for each letter (letters
representing the flower). On each
leaf they will write the fraction of the
letter, and on the other petal they
will write the decimal of the letter
(so two leaves per letter ‘flower’)