Description
Boost your 5th-grade curriculum with these math writing prompts designed for adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. This writing across the curriculum resource effectively engages students in writing within the math class, featuring two distinct activities: explaining mathematical processes and creating individual word problems.
Gauge Your Students’ Depth of Understanding
Through the act of explaining the process for finding a solution, students solidify their thinking, offering you crucial insights into their grasp of fractions. This is an exceptional tool for evaluating a student’s depth of understanding, and providing valuable information to enhance teaching and learning.
Increase Problem-Solving Skills
Encourage students to elevate their problem-solving abilities by having them create their own word problems. By writing their own problems, students become more proficient at solving problems written by others, and they gain an edge in preparing for standardized testing
These math writing prompts are ideal for daily math warm-ups, centers, exit tickets, and interactive journals.
FEATURES:
✔️ 42 Explain the Process Prompts
These math writing prompts enable students to explain the process of adding and subtracting fractions, reinforcing their grasp and solidifying their understanding of these essential math concepts.
✔️ 42 Write Your Own Word Problem Prompts
Encourage students to devise their own math word problems centered on adding and subtracting fractions, increasing their problem-solving skills.
✔️ Convenient Half-Size Sheets for Math Writing Prompts
Perfect for writing math prompts, these sheets easily fit into composition books and are designed to engage reluctant writers.
➡️ INCLUDED FRACTION SKILLS:
- Adding fractions – sums less than one
- Adding fractions – sums greater than one
- Subtracting fractions
➡️ INCLUDED MIXED NUMBERS SKILLS:
- Adding mixed numbers – no regrouping
- Adding mixed numbers – with regrouping
- Subtracting mixed numbers – no regrouping
- Subtracting mixed numbers – with regrouping
✅ WHAT’S INCLUDED:
- 84 adding and subtracting fractions writing prompts
- Half-size sheets that fit neatly into composition books
- Writing activities covering essential 5th grade skills
THIS RESOURCE SUPPORTS THE FOLLOWING TEKS:
TEKS 5.3H – represent and solve addition and subtraction of fractions with unequal denominators referring to the same whole using objects and pictorial models and properties of operations
⭐ BUNDLE & SAVE ⭐
This resource is included in the 5th Grade Math Writing Prompts Bundle! Check it out and get enough writing prompts for the entire year.
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Want to learn more about how you can help your students write about math? Read this blog post to learn tips of how you can help your students become better writers.
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