The document provides an overview of teaching fractions to students in grades 6-7 and middle school special education. It discusses dividing one whole into equal parts and naming the parts based on the number of sections, such as halves, thirds, fourths, and fifths. It also addresses adding and sharing fractions between different numbers of people or objects.

1. Weston Public Schools, CT
Teaching of Fractions
Grades 6 – 7 & Middle School Special Education
Yeap Ban Har
SESSION 1
August 23, 2013
8.00 a.m. to 11.00 a.m.

2. 1 half
1 third
1 fourth
When 1 is divided into equal parts, we can name
the parts. The name of the parts depends on the
number of equal parts 1 is divided into.
1
4
name /
denomination

4. 2 fifths + 1 fifth
2 apples + 1 apple

11. What if it is shared between
2?
What if it is shared among
4?