Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Montessori at our home - 7 - Fractions - Part I

There are a lot of materials online on Fractions and Fraction Insets.  However, I was really looking for albums on how to move towards Fraction related basic operations

For that, we needed to do some work prior to these operations by themselves, such as -

  • Knowing LCM in case of complex Fraction addition where denominator is not the same
  • Reducing Fractions
This led me to multiples, factors, HCF, LCM, proper, improper fractions, mixed fractions etc

So much - so finally, we made a humble beginning by making the cutouts.

We made the fraction cut-outs at home - after taking printouts of Fraction Circles from Montessori Mom.

Here is our fraction box and a fraction practice activity gift from his Aunt.





We have since then moved on to describing the numerator, denominator, proper fraction, improper fraction. He is right now doing conversion of an improper fraction into Mixed form.

We also deviated a bit and did multiples and factors.  My source primarily has been Montessori Commons for this activity.  We haven't yet reached Prime Numbers. But, he has already got a hang that there are numbers that have only 2 factors, 1 & the number itself. 

We have also got the Fraction Tower activity set.


We still need to go through some activities before we get to the Tower. That includes Decimal, Decimal operations, Centesimal Frame. 
 

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