Arizona Math Standard: 4.NF.A.2.a

What do you do with students who already get their fraction operations? Give them a contrived project about recipes or pizza slices? Make them solve annoyingly hard practice problems? Please. Here, we get students thinking in a whole new way, pondering which has more power, the numerator or denominator.

How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?

Which set of fractions would be the trickiest to order from least to greatest? Let’s have a tournament!

When fractions take on a new denominator, it’s as if they’re wearing a disguise – same value, new look. So let’s write a story about fraction equivalence starring a fraction who needs to fit in with a new group.