MayScaffolding vs PacFractions

This CLIL unit about Fractions is designed to allow all students in their 1st year of  Compulsory Secondary Education belong to a bilingual class context, with English as L2, achieve the following learning outcomes:

• To know, understand and use fraction concepts.
• To describe the procedure for finding equivalent fractions.
• To reduce a fraction to lowest terms.
• To apply fraction concepts to solve problems.
• To calculate Lowest Common Denominator.
• To apply all procedures for ordering fractions.
• To operate with fractions.
• To do word problems related to fractions.

The area is Maths and the subject contents are:

• Meaning of fractions.
• Equivalent fractions.
• Simplify fractions.
• Calculate Lowest Common Denominator.
• Compare and order fractions.
• Basic operations with fractions
• Use the order of operation involving fractions.
• Word problems related to fractions.

At the end of this unit students will be able to record in pairs a video describing how to calculate an operation involving fractions and a word problem.

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This unit will be developed in eigth sessions. In order to reach our goals I have designed the following tasks:

Session 1:
Brainstorming ideas about fractions. We will expect learners to use some L1 , then translate.
Content: Meaning of fractions.
Activity: Matching up diagrams and fractions
Resources: Pictures related to the topic:

Online dictionary of English pronunciation

Session 2:
Contents: Equivalent fractions.
                Simplify fractions.
Activities: Effective scaffolding.
             Crossword http://www.educaplay.com/es/recursoseducativos/1833997/fractions.htm
Resources: Simplify fractions

Own and adapted materials.

Session 3:
Contents: Calculate Lowest Common Denominator.
                Compare and order fractions.
Activity: Effective scaffolding.
Resources: Finding common denominators of multiple fractions to order them

  

Own and adapted materials.

Session 4:

Contents: Basic operations with fractions.
Activities: Effective scaffolding.
Resources: Picture related to the topic 

Adding fractions:

Multipying fractions:

Own and adapted materials.

Session 5:
Activity: In pairs students are going to cut and play to Fraction Jigsaw.
Resources: Fraction Jigsaw

Session 6:
Content: Use the order of operation involving fractions.
Activities: Effective scaffolding.
                Filling in black.
                Listen to a rap song.
Resources: Song

   

Filling in black 
Online dictionary of English pronunciation
Own and adapted materials.

Session 7:
Content: Word problems related to fractions.
Activity: Effective scaffolding.
Resources: Own and adapted materials.

Session 8:
Students should show their work for the rest of the class.