Equivalent Fraction and a great review strategy

Happy snow day!  Believe it or not this is our fifth snow day this school year.  Here in eastern North Carolina we rarely get snow days just an occasional hurricane day every couple of years.

Since we have had so many snow days we are really behind in our fraction unit so I decided to review equivalent fractions with a great review strategy that I found at my friend Mandy's blog at http://the4thgradejourney.blogspot.com/.  

I used a previously created worksheet to review equivalent fractions.  It is designed in a tic tac toe board and I chose this particular worksheet because it begins with pictorial representations and ends with abstract examples where students have to apply the math skills taught to identify equivalent fractions.  As you can see in the picture they did have fraction bars if they needed that concrete manipulative to help them solve the problems.  Students worked on the assignment independently and as they worked I passed out red and green algebra tiles for the review part of the lesson.  

Once students completed the task we reviewed each problem together on the Elmo.  As we discussed the answer to each problem they placed a green tile on the problem if they got it correct and a red tile on the problem if they got it incorrect.  Once we reviewed the whole sheet they were required to write the fraction for the number of problems they got correct at the top of the paper.  I went around the room and checked each students fraction to make sure that they wrote it correctly. If they did I gave them a piece of candy!

The students really enjoyed the activity and the self-check and immediate feedback was a hit!

Now if we ever get back to school we can continue on our fraction journey.