Just a start, but this is following on from a twitter conversation in which a few people helped me to improve my lesson plan and worksheet on dividing fractions.
In the long term, I plan to share all my lessons which lead up to this point, hence the first three ‘topics’, but they’re not yet good enough to be worth sharing!
| Aims | Lesson Plan | Resources Mentioned in Lesson Plan | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| To know the ‘sticks fitting into a gap’ model of division | |||
| To divide decimals by considering how the ‘sticks’ or ‘gap’ have changed | |||
| To divide fractions by considering how the ‘sticks’ or ‘gap’ have changed | |||
| To divide fractions and mixed numbers using the ‘multiply by the reciprocal’ method | division D | practice |