Some things went well with this lesson, and other things could definitely have been better. The timing of this lesson went well with adults, but I would have needed to leave more time for 3rd graders to have completed all the creation and labeling of the fraction strips. I also would have liked to have more time at the end for students to write their own "math stories" on the iPads and trade with a partner to solve. I think each student just had time to create one with illustrations using the educreations software.
I do think the lesson was able to meet both of the main objectives, which were to understand fractions as part of a whole, and to be able to represent equivalent fractions. Additionally, the discussion at the beginning of the lesson let students find ways they use fractions in their everyday lives, which hopefully, made the lesson more interesting to them.
It's very difficult to gauge whether or not I was able to meet the needs of individual learners with this lesson because all of the participants were adults who understood the material and did not need any help. I do think the time students spend creating their manipulatives, working with partners and writing in their math journals would allow for me to check in with each student to see if any need extra help or attention.
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