Bits+and+Pieces+1

=Bits and Pieces 1 =  Problem-Solving Goals:  Problem-Solving Goals:  Problem-Solving Goals:
 * __Investigation 1:__**
 * Develop strategies for partitioning fraction strips for halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, eighths, ninths, tenths, and twelfths.
 * Understand the role of a numerator and the denominator in a fraction and the part-to-whole nature of fractions.
 * Begin to investigate equivalent fractions that result from different partitioning strategies.
 * Use fraction to represent part-to-whole relationships.
 * Begin to use fractions to find fraction parts of whole-number quantities.
 * Understand the need to consider the size of the whole when comparing fractions amounts.
 * Begin to reason with fractions greater than 1.
 * __Investigation 2:__**
 * Use fractions as operators to find the actual measure of a fraction length of a whole.
 * Understand the need to consider the size of the whole when comparing fractions.
 * Understand that a place o a number line can have more than one fraction name.
 * Recognize that fractions can represent a location on a number and the length from one point to another on a number line.
 * Develop strategies for finding equivalent fractions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Develop strategies for comparing and ordering fractions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Build understanding of fractions as whole numbers that measure lengths between whole numbers.
 * __Investigation 3:__**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Problem-Solving Goals:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Understand relationships between tenths and hundredths including how tenths are partitioned to create hundredths.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Represent decimals as fractions with denominators of ten and one hundred.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Read and write fractions and decimal numbers.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Develop ways to find a decimal between any two given decimals.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Recognize fractions as indicated division problems.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Understand why division is an appropriate interpretation of a fraction.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use the decimal place-value system to interpret, compare, and order decimals.
 * __Investigation 4:__**

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Introduce percents as a part-whole relationship where the whole is not out of 100 but scaled to be "out of 100"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use fraction partitioning and fraction benchmarks to make sense of percents.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Develop strategies, including percents, to use in comparisons where the whole is less than 100.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Develop connections between fractions, decimals, and percents.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Develop strategies for expressing data in percent form.
 * Technology Resources:**

[|Video Tutorials:] Click this link for video tutorials for the major concepts taught for each investigation of Bits and Pieces 1.

[|Reducing Fractions:] This link provides step by step directions for reducing fractions and specific explanations of why each step is made and practice problems for students to complete on the computer.

[|Decimal Basic:] This link provides the basics of decimals and how they relate to fractions. Specific explanations of why each step is made and practice problems for students to complete on the computer.

[|Percents:] This link provides the basic of percents and how they relate to fractions and decimals. Specific explanations of why each step is made and practice problems for students to complete on the computer.

- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Online Version - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Exam View Version
 * Assessments:** Below are assessments that can be downloaded and viewed within the Exam View Program as well as a web page format.


 * Parent Connection:** The document below are the list of skills and concepts the students are learning throughout Bits and Pieces 1. This is a resource for parents to help their child with homework.



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