Today we will continue to practice adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions. The quiz on Thursday went better for some than others, but overall I feel that we still need more practice before moving on. Fraction operations are a huge concept in 6th grade, so we are going to take the extra time to get it right.
Today students will be working in stations. They will be able to use the others in their group for help, but they will each be turning in their own answer sheet and work. The 4 stations will be as follows...
Adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators
Adding and subtracting fractions with unline denominators
Multiplying fractions
Dividing fractions
Each student will work on 3 stations today. Tomorrow they will complete the 4th station. This should give students plenty of time to complete each station. We will grade our answers tomorrow. After completing the stations work, I have prepared a survey for each class that will give us data to use for the next lesson: converting fractions to decimals and percents
