Lesson #2 title: PART 2 = Representing MIXED NUMBERS and IMPROPER FRACTIONS visually
Date:
THROUGH-LINE: Creation-enjoying
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The unbelievable becomes believable when it is thought about logically. Improper fractions are ‘top-heavy’. (example: = 1 )
OUTCOMES:
1. Record the mixed number displayed in a given pictorial representation.
2. Record the improper fraction displayed in a given pictorial representation.
3. Use pictorial representations to illustrate a given mixed number and improper fraction.
4. Orally define ‘mixed number’, ‘proper fraction’, and ‘improper fraction’.
MATERIAL NEEDED: highlighters, pencil, blue pen
Example #1: For each question, name the mixed number and the improper fraction shown.
Mixed number:
Improper fraction:
Mixed number:
Improper fraction:
Mixed number:
Improper fraction:
Example #2: For each question, name the mixed number and the improper fraction shown by
rearranging the ‘pizza slices’.
L2(2)
Example #3: For each question, shade the amount of pie. There may be more circles than you need.
Then record the equivalent improper fraction or mixed number.
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3
3
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Example #4: Accurately SKETCH each mixed number and improper fraction.
2
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1
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L2(3)
YOUR TURN 
#1: Write each fraction as an improper fraction and as a mixed number. (You decide which to write first.)
#2: For each question, shade the amount of pie. There may be more circles than you need.
L2(4)
#3:
Write each fraction as an improper fraction and as a mixed number. (You decide which to write first.)
Mixed number:
Improper fraction:
Mixed number:
Improper fraction:
Mixed number:
Improper fraction:
#4: Draw each mixed number and improper fraction.
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