Equivalent Fractions

This week we began discussing how to find equivalent fractions.  I introduced our lesson with this great 4 minute teaser video created by a teacher and posted on youtube.

As this lesson progressed, we included finding equivalent fractions with manipulatives, then moving to pictorial models in our journals.  Check out what it looked like:

As the students completed their work on the right side of their journal, they took a picture of the page with the classroom iPad.  This allowed me to quickly assess everyone's comprehension of this concept without having to haul 100 math journals home. 

Finally we practiced finding equivalent fractions abstractly.  Our biggest thing to remember from this lesson is, "What ever you do to the numerator, you must do the same thing to the denominator!"