Session 1: Acivity 2

As we have told before, this activity goes in more detail in the concept of the equivalent fractions. This concept will be connected in other activities because it’s very important to be clear.

This activity is consisted of two parts:

1- Students must work in pairs and they have to found equivalent fractions to those in the table. They can be helped with the attachment graphics. 

2- On the second part of the activity students, in pairs, should found the denominator or the missing fraction to form an equivalent. The activity is produced on a table.

RESULTS

Students presented more difficulties on this activity. The concept of the equivalent fraction was more problematic than the graphics on the activity one. And we can also explain in better detail the difficulties in each of the two parts:

-First part: Some students didn’t understand the concept of fractions and they had to be helped with some graphics. They had seen that the graphics divided in different number of parts but doing equivalent fractions represented the same quantity. This was the clue to better understand this thing.

-Second part: We had some problems with the time, so we had to do it in class group. But we could see that they had some problems with some equivalent fractions that were more difficult to found.
But, with our help they can do better the activity as you can see on the example.