Basic 4 Mathematics Term 1 Week 11 Lesson Plan

Engage learners to play games and sing familiar rhymes to begin the lesson.

Guide learners to use pictorial representations to illustrate the 2 1 simplest form of a fraction; e.g. = 4 2 1 2 2 4 Guide learners to find the simplest form of a given fraction by dividing through by the highest common factor. 6 e.g. simplify . 9 divide through with the highest common factor i.e. 3 6 62 2 = = 9 9 3 3 8 e.g. simplify 12 Find the simplest form of a given fraction, express the numerator and denominators as factors and cancel through common factors. Use several pictorial representations (or card cut outs) to introduce improper fractions (i.e. where the fraction is bigger than 1 or the numerator is larger than the denominator). 9 7 Examples are and (i.e. nine- 4 6 fourths and seven-sixths) and show how they are expressed as mixed fractions. 1 1 i.e. 2 and 1 4 6 Ask pupils to change given improper fractions to mixed fractions Ask pupils to express given colored mixed fractions as improper fractions or draw and color given improper fraction (e.g. five-fourths and four- thirds) 5 = 4 4 = 3 For this activity, learners use fraction strips cut from old cartons, bottle tops and exercise books to fold and compare fractional parts, model the required operation and record the results.

Ask learners to tell you what they have learnt Give learners individual or home task