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Lesson Account: A lesson for consolidating the concept of improper fractions.

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Subject: Mathematics.
Age of students: 9-11 years.
Hardware: Clickers,
Teacher’s PC,
Data projector,
TI-Primaire Plus Calculator.
Software: Je lève la main (student response system).
Functionalities of Technology: Sending and Displaying,
Processing and Analysing.
Time needed: 60-90 minutes.
FaSMEd Partner: Ecole Normale Superieure De Lyon.

Summary:
This lesson deals with improper fractions and aims at working on their decomposition into the sum of an integer and a fraction smaller than 1. Two quizzes, at the beginning and at the end of the lesson, allow the teacher to engage students in the proposed work and to highlight the class’ progressions thanks to this activity.

Resources:
Teacher Guidance (pdf)
improper_fractions-quiz (ppt)
improper_fractions-worksheet1&2 (pdf)

Formative assessment in Science and
Mathematics Education (FaSMEd)
The Research Centre for Learning and Teaching
Newcastle University
NE1 7RU
UK

Email: fasmed@ncl.ac.uk