byWhether or not your students realize it, they use fractions every day. What’s more, their future jobs will likely require a basic level of fluency with fractions. While many students aren’t thinking ahead to their future careers, they still want to know how math concepts apply to their daily lives. Showing students how fractions work in real life encourages them to engage with classroom fraction talks and motivates them to do well on their assignments.
You can connect teaching fractions with something most students identify with: receiving money. Whether receiving an allowance, getting cash for birthdays and holidays, or earning extra spending money through babysitting, yard work, or other part-time jobs, students are bound to have some kind of small income. Deciding what to do with that money is a perfect application of fractions in real life.
Collected from -Treve Brinkman
