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Super FRIO (inequality) |
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Materials: Deck of Fraction Bars per group or pair of people |
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Illustrate Super FRIO by showing the following Fraction Bars. In this game each player is dealt five bars, or five Fraction Playing Cards, which they place in increasing order. Then each player in turn selects an arbitrary bar and replaces one of their five bars, with the goal of obtaining five bars that increase by one part out of 12.
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Ask for suggestions as to what strategies might be followed to try to change the above bars for a winning game. For example, one strategy is to select from the yellow bars to try to replace the whole bar by the bar for 2/3. As each group plays this game, make a note of one or two sets of bars to be used for a class discussion of possible strategies, once the game is over. Discuss that this game is background for inequality of fractions. Point out that this game also can be played with the fraction playing cards as illustrated in the student’s paper below.
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Student Writing Project - Super FRIO Strategies |
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Project the following fifth grade student’s writing project. It is a good example of the type of reasoning that can be expected from some fifth grade students. Read through some of the highlights of this paper, and the teacher's comments at the end regarding the student's game plan.
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