Save time on planning with this animated PowerPoint lesson to introduce equivalent fractions. Available in Google Slides™ & PowerPoint, this interactive instructional resource uses animation, supporting visuals, and meaningful questions to help students discover what makes fractions equivalent. This ready to teach lesson also includes a student note-taking guide, editable lesson plan, and exit ticket.  

Grab this CCSS aligned interactive fraction lesson to save time on planning and help students understand how to identify equivalent fractions.  Purposely designed with powerful visual supports, scaffolded animations, and thought-provoking questions, this lesson will engage students in meaningful math talk as they discover equivalent fractions.  Little to NO PREP! This lesson is ready to teach! Download now and use this animated presentation today!

Includes:

★ Animated PowerPoint presentation with 47 slides

★ Google slides Animated Presentation

★ Detailed lesson plan

★ Editable lesson plan

★ Student Note-taking guide

★ Practice Worksheets

★ Self-grading Google Form™ exit tickets

★ Printable exit tickets

★ Answer Keys

★ Printable Learning objectives to display

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This lesson is an introductory lesson for equivalent fractions and focuses on helping students visually and conceptually understand what it means when two fractions are equivalent. Starting with the basics, this lesson is a solid foundation for first teaching equivalent fractions or reinforcing the concept.  

The lesson focuses on the use of visual models to identify fraction equivalence, and it does not include teaching the algorithm for generating equivalent fractions.  ​​Fractions with denominators: 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, & 12 are used in this lesson. The main objective is for students to identify equivalent fractions and make meaning of fraction equivalence.  

Check out the second lesson in this equivalent fraction series: Lesson #2

Animated slides reveal problems step by step

• Scaffolds instruction by slowly giving additional visual supports before revealing answer
• Gives students think time to understand concept
• Promotes student participation and active engagement during the lesson
• Allots for time to engage in meaningful math conversations with partners and as a whole group
• Provides powerful visual supports that help students see how the fractions are equivalent or not equivalent 

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Are your students still struggling to understand equivalent fractions?

This ready to teach animated PowerPoint lesson plan is a time saving resource for introducing equivalent fractions to students. Engaging visuals, animations, and meaningful questions will help students make meaning of equivalent fractions.

Use the note-taking guide to ensure students are following along and engaged in the lesson. 

Notes with talking points and directions included in the PowerPoint presentation to help guide you through the lesson.  

Assess students' understanding with check for understandings embedded into the lesson as well as differentiated exit tickets and worksheets for independent practice following the lesson.

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WHO?

• 3rd & 4th grade students learning equivalent fractions for the first time
• Intervention groups
• Special education

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Learning objective

• Identify equivalent fractions, recognize when fractions are equivalent & not equivalent 

Lesson Includes:

★TITLE SLIDE

★BUILD BACKGROUND SLIDES

• 5 slides to connect students to prior knowledge about fractions. 
• Review terms: fraction, equal parts, numerator, & denominator

★INTRODUCTION & DISCOVERY SLIDES

• 4 slides in this section
• 1 Initial observation slide to help students construct their own understanding of equivalent fractions 
• 3 slides to answer the question and provide context for self-discovery

★OBJECTIVE SLIDE

• In this lesson, you will learn to recognize equivalent fractions and identify when two fractions are not equivalent.

★TEACHER DIRECT INSTRUCTION SLIDES 

• 5 slides to directly model the concept of equivalent fractions using area models 

★VOCABULARY SLIDES SLIDES 

• 3 slides to introduce and explicitly teach new vocabulary terms
• Vocabulary words: equivalent, equivalent fractions, & same value

★GUIDED PRACTICE

• 5 slides: EQUIVALENT OR NOT EQUIVALENT?
• Visually engaging slides to help students visualize the difference between fractions that are equivalent and fractions that are not equivalent.

★FRACTIONS WITH THE SAME NUMERATOR & DENOMINATOR

• 8 slides to help students observe how fractions with the same numerator and denominator cannot be equivalent
• 2 CFU (Check For Understanding) slides following this section

★GUIDED PRACTICE: IDENTIFY EQUIVALENT FRACTIONS

• 12 slides to practice identifying an equivalent fraction using area models
• Fill in the numerator to make fractions equivalent. 
• Animations provide scaffolded supports for students with each click revealing a visual support until the final answer is shown

★RECAP SLIDE

• 1 slide to recap the main learnings of the lesson 

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WHAT’S INCLUDED:

★Animated PowerPoint Lesson (PPTX download)

• 47 instructional animated slides 
• Animations reveal the problems step-by-step to pause and give students time to think and discuss the information
• Animated slides & visual supports
• Present in presentation mode
• Notes section includes talking points and times to direct students to use the note-taking guide

★Animated Google Slides™ Lesson 

• Make a copy of presentation
• Same features as PPTX lesson above

★Detailed Lesson Plan

• Editable version in (Microsoft Word)
• Non-editable version (PDF)
• Learning objective
• Materials
• Vocabulary
• CCSS
• Key Learnings
• Each section of powerpoint broken down with questions, answers, tips for instruction, and scripted talking points

★Student Note-taking Guide

• Keep students engaged in the lesson as they follow along with their own note-taking guide which highlights key points in the lesson
• 2 pages
• Includes completed example for reference
• Notes included in the PowerPoint to guide students when they need to fill in the note-taking guide
• Also available on easel

★Differentiated Exit tickets- Digital & Print 

• Includes 4 questions to assess students’ understanding
• Paper exit ticket
• Self-grading digital exit ticket on Google Forms™ 
• 4 differentiated exit ticket versions 
• Exit ticket Answer Key
• Also available on easel

★Independent Practice Worksheets

• Equivalent or not equivalent? Practice worksheet: 2 pages (2 different levels)
• Fill in the numerator equivalent fraction practice worksheet: 2 pages (2 different levels)
• Worksheet answer key
• Also available on easel

★Learning objective 

• 6 versions the learning objective to print and display

PLEASE NOTE: 

• Visuals and text included in the PowerPoint presentation are not editable. The animations can be edited.
• Not listed in Google drive tool, digital download includes link to make a copy of
• Google Slides™ presentation in the PDF.

DIGITAL DOWNLOAD FILE

★Zip file includes

• PowerPoint presentation (PPTX)
• Editable lesson (Microsoft Word)
• PDF:
  • Link to Google Slides™ presentation
  • Link to Google Form™ exit ticket
  • Non-editable lesson plan
  • Learning objective to display in classroom
  • Student note-taking guide
  • Filled in example of student note-taking guide
  • Student worksheets
  • Printable exit ticket

PLEASE NOTE: There is an editable version of the lesson plan in Microsoft word. No other parts of this resource are editable. 

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Common Core Alignment

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NF.A.3

Explain equivalence of fractions in special cases, and compare fractions by reasoning about their size.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.A.1

Explain why a fraction a/b is equivalent to a fraction (n × a)/(n × b) by using visual fraction models, with attention to how the number and size of the parts differ even though the two fractions themselves are the same size. Use this principle to recognize and generate equivalent fractions.

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WAYS TO USE in your classroom

This resource is designed to be a guided lesson. The powerpoint doesn’t include draggable pieces for independent practice, but it is meant to be used in presentation mode.

• Whole group instruction
• Small group instruction
• Intervention groups

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