Are you looking for a hands-on activity to help students apply their understanding of fractions of lengths in a meaningful context?
In this fractions of lengths activity, students read a short story about a character going on a hunt and use the fraction information in the text to fill in each section of a length model — drawing, colouring, or pasting pictures to show what happens in each half or quarter of the journey.
What's included:
Version 1: quarters pre-marked on the length model; students draw or colour each section according to the story
Version 2: blank length model; students first draw lines to divide the length into quarters, then draw or colour each section
Version 3: cut and paste version; students paste picture cards onto the correct sections of the length model
US spelling version included