Day 51: Fractions Review Game

6th Grade Math Standards: Interpret and compute quotients of fractions, and solve word problems involving division of fractions by fractions, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem. For example, create a story context for (2/3) ÷ (3/4) and use a visual fraction model to show the quotient; use the relationship between multiplication and division to explain that (2/3) ÷ (3/4) = 8/9 because 3/4 of 8/9 is 2/3. (In general, (a/b) ÷ (c/d) = ad/bc .) How much chocolate will each person get if 3 people share 1/2 lb of chocolate equally? How many 3/4-cup servings are in 2/3 of a cup of yogurt? How wide is a rectangular strip of land with length 3/4 mi and area 1/2 square mi?

The Learning Objective: Use the four operations to solve fraction problems

Quote of the Day: Learn from the mistakes of others (from one of the student's fortune cookies).

Question from Yesterday (as always from a student): "Why is it that if it is a problem like 9 divided by 1/2 that the quotient comes out larger than the dividend?"

Assessment: Students used marker boards as we played Who Wants to Be a Millionaire using the questions that will be on the test (I didn't tell students that much).

Agenda:

1. Weekly Quiz collected
2. Check the homework
3. Get to 10
4. Review homework questions by having students come to the board and the rest of the class is doing Pepper while we wait
5. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? If students finish problems early they will do get to 10

Glass-Half Full: Getting to 10 as we did Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was money. I always hated games because it created competition and classroom management problems as students would finish the same problem in different amounts of time, and some students would not know what to do while others did. By giving the students that finish early another task, it bought me time to work with students that were struggling. I also liked the marker boards because students were more inclined to show their answers

Regrets: The game part of this made it more interesting, but it was up to the students to keep track of their points. Somehow it would have been nice if I was using Kahoot or some other software to keep track of the numbers for the students. I was going to use PowerPoint, but for some reason it did not work.

Link of the Day: Only a quarter of the jobs in tech fields belong to women and according to this article it might be worse.