Using Pattern Blocks

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Using Pattern Blocks

• Understanding Fractions
• G.A. Haber

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The Five Rules of Fractions

• 1. Identify what the whole is.
• 2. Tell the number of equal parts the whole has
  been cut into. (DENOMINATOR)
• 3. Tell the number of equal parts we are talking
  about. (NUMERATOR)
• 4. If you move the pieces around, it is still
  the same fraction, it just looks different.
• 5. If you replace some pieces with a single,
  larger shape that covers the same area, it is
  still the same fraction.

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Using Pattern Blocks

• In a fraction what does the denominator tell
  you?In a fraction what does the numerator tell
  you?

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Pattern Blocks, the basic set consists of 6
shapes

• the yellow hexagon
• the blue rhombus
• the orange square
• the green triangle
• the red trapezoid
• the beige rhombus

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Supplement to the basic pattern blocks

• the pink double hexagon
• the black chevron.

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Using Pattern Blocks

• Use pattern blocks to figure out what fraction of
  each figure is shaded.

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Using Pattern Blocks
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Using Pattern Blocks
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Simple Pattern Block Activities

• How many green blocks are equivalent to a blue
  block?
• a red block?
• a yellow block?
• How many red blocks are equivalent to a yellow
  block?
• How many blue blocks are equivalent a yellow
  block?
• a green block?

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