Instructor: Annie Orukotan
Title: Background on Fractions
Students: Grade 3.
Age group: 7 – 8 years old
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This lesson plan is objectively meant to act as a teachers guide for introducing students who are yet to encounter fractions in other lectures or classes.This lesson will build on already familiarised knowledge such as mathematical functions including addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. Existing understanding of these numerical functions play a critical role in students’ long run understanding of fractions and other continuing topics.
Objectives;
- Students will be able to identify fractions as part of a whole
- Students will be able to represent fractions visually using shapes.
- Students will be able to compare fraction
Materials needed; .
- Coloured pencils or markers
- Paper
- Shape cut outs (Including but not limited to circles, rectangles, and squares)
Firstly students should be asked questions such as;
- What are the different mathematical functions
- How can they be used?
This is important to assess students’ learning and understanding on the core prerequisite topic for fractions and other topics that will build upon the foundation topic of mathematical functions. To refresh students’ memory, the video below should be played and the question at the end should be answered.
I have decided on using the multimedia principle to allow adequate understanding of the background knowledge (mathematical functions). The multimedia principle states that humans learn best from words and picture rather than just words alone. The videos presented below allow for both visual and audio presentation of information, which students will find easier to comprehend and understand. Information on the mathematical functions such as addition and subtraction are shown in the videos with pictures, word, and audio interpretation of the visual information present in the videos. Although the topic of both addition, subtraction, multiplication and division have been previously introduced and taught to students using the multimedia principle allows students to refresh their memories on these topics.