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Lesson Plan

Seeing Whole Numbers as Fractions

Teach your students whole numbers as fractions in three easy steps. Using this lesson plan your class will create, label and illustrate whole numbers as fractions on a number line.
Grade:
Third Grade
View aligned standards
3.NF.A.3.c

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to illustrate whole numbers as fractions on a number line.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Ask your class to consider the following questions, "When is part of a whole, NOT part of a whole? When is a whole, NOT a whole?"
  • Have students think pair and share their ideas with a partner. Encourage students to illustrate their explanations with drawings of fractional parts.