{"id":3286,"date":"2013-06-19T16:05:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T00:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kidnexions.com\/blog\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2013-06-19T16:05:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T00:05:25","slug":"fractions-in-the-fourth-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/?p=3286","title":{"rendered":"Fractions in the Fourth Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a fun way to tie in some fraction work.  Students will be making their own number trails using inch graph paper and then using them to develop their understanding of fractions.  It&#8217;s nice to give them the ownership of making their trails any way they want.  Just make sure all students have trails that are the same length in numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kidnexions.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3292\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3292\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kidnexions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-18-15.49.51-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Fractions in Fourth Grade\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-18-15.49.51-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-18-15.49.51-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/kidnexions.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3291\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3291\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kidnexions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-19-07.46.32-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Fractions in Fourth Grade\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-19-07.46.32-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-19-07.46.32-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kidnexions.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3290\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3290\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kidnexions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-19-11.36.06-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Fractions in Fourth Grade\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-19-11.36.06-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-19-11.36.06-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kidnexions.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3289\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3289\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kidnexions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-19-13.59.41-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Fractions in the Fourth Grade\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-19-13.59.41-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-19-13.59.41-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CCSSM:  3.NF.A.1; 3.NF.A.3a; 3.NF.A.3b; 3.NF.A.3c; 3.NF.A.3d; 4.NF.A.1; 4.NF.A.2; 4.NF.B.3b; 4.NF.B.3d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a fun way to tie in some fraction work. Students will be making their own number trails using inch graph paper and then using them to develop their understanding of fractions. It&#8217;s nice to give them the ownership of making their trails any way they want. Just make sure all students have trails that are the same length in numbers. CCSSM: 3.NF.A.1; 3.NF.A.3a; 3.NF.A.3b; 3.NF.A.3c; 3.NF.A.3d; 4.NF.A.1; 4.NF.A.2; 4.NF.B.3b; 4.NF.B.3d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,76,161,51],"tags":[101,102,69,81,118,21,22],"class_list":["post-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-family-math-night-2","category-fractions-kids-and-math-3-5","category-kids-and-math-3-5","tag-ccss","tag-common-core-state-standards","tag-family-math-night","tag-family-math-night-activities","tag-fractions","tag-karyn-hodgens","tag-kidnexions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fractions in the Fourth Grade - Karyn&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/?p=3286\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fractions in the Fourth Grade - Karyn&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#8217;s a fun way to tie in some fraction work. 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