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Improper, flipping for reciprocals, numerator, and mixed are just a few of the vocabulary words our @Kig's Ridge Christian School Fourth-grade students are learning this week in Math.
The fourth-grade teachers start their math lessons with "My Favorite No." This warm-up exercise gives the class a problem that they then have to work out on index cards.
The teacher collects the cards and goes through them, sorting the correct answers from the wrong. The teacher picks one "Favorite No" from the wrong answers. She copies it to the board and calls on a student to explain what went wrong with the math process. The student first has to point out what is correct. Then step by step explains the proper method of completing the math problem.
This skill not only teaches our fourth-graders the proper way to explain a step by step process. It also teaches them a life skill of discussing the positive side, finding the "good" in the fellow student's work.
As we build on our math program, the students learn the skills and techniques that best work for them. While working through the math pages, our teachers reinforced the vocabulary while explaining the Math concepts using their resources available to them. A few students drew pictures with circles or rectangles breaking them down to represent the fraction. Other students use the fraction tiles.
The students all agreed by using the manipulatives they were able to see and understood, the smaller the denominator, the greater the fraction size.