Your little chefs will be serving up fractions any way they like it….all while incorporating math and writing skills! The focus of this lesson is to use art to teach fraction, decimal, and percent equivalents.

Prior to teaching this lesson, I like to read the story, Fractions, Decimals, and Percents by David Adler. Once my students have a solid understanding about how to change a fraction into a decimal and a percent, they are ready for this activity! Students choose their ingredients for their own personal pizza and find the fraction, decimal, percent equivalents.

Once their pizza is created, the little chefs then start their expository writing and write step by step directions for creating a fraction pizza.

File includes colorful learning target posters that can be printed for a bulletin board or projected onto your SmartBoard, directions, a variety of pizza ingredients that are in color and black/white, and student reproducibles.

This 45 page file addresses the following learning targets:

1. I can classify, or group, my candy according to its attributes.
2. I can identify my candy as a 2-D shape. I can identify the characteristics of the 2-D shape.
3. I can identify my candy as a 3-D shape. I can identify the characteristics of the 3-D shape.
4. I can use a comparison statement that describes my candy.
5. I can use my candy to write an addition word problem, using key words. I can use my candy to write a subtraction problem, using key words.
6. I can determine the fraction of each color in the package of my candy. I can write the numerator and denominator of the fraction that represents my candy.
7. I can create a bar graph that represents the different shapes of my candy and analyze the data.

This file includes student reproducibles and colorful anchor charts to go along with each one of the learning targets.

***This lesson is also part of a bundled unit, called Show Me the Candy! Using Candy for Math and Science****
Show Me the Candy.

Common Core Standards Addressed:
2.OA Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction
2.OA.1
2.NBT Understand place value
2.NBT.4
2.MD Represent and interpret data
2.MD.10
2G Reason with shapes and their attributes
2G.1

3.OA Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic
3.OA.8
3.NF Develop understanding of fractions as numbers
3.NF.1
3.MD Represent and interpret data
3.MD.3
3.G. Reason with shapes and their attributes
3.G.1

4.NBT Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers
4.NBT.1

Want a creative and fun way to wrap up your unit on fractions? Host a fashion fraction fashion show! Students turn into models and dress up to represent fractions with their clothing and accessories. Models walk down the runway and the audience participate by writing the fraction represented.

File includes:
Detailed suggestions and ideas to host a successful fashion show, pictures included!
Notes to send home, invited parents to the fashion show and for requested supplies
Colorful posters to print for fashion show: VIP, concessions, awards, score cards for the audience members
Pages for the students to record their fractions for the friends
An adorable art project (tracers included), where the students recreate their fashion fractions

Your students will have so much fun strutting their fractions down the runway, they won’t even believe they are learning about math!

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The players will then rotate around the classroom and visit the different fractions task cards.

This ***Common Core Aligned*** file includes:
1. Directions for setting up the b-ball game
2. A student recording sheet (flip book) to keep score
3. 32 colorful fraction task cards
4. Recording sheet and answer key for the task cards

Read this blog post to learn how we set up this little game of B-Ball in our classroom!

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