Week 1 of Blog: The Role of Unit

During the activity for this week, it had to do with using manipulatives to show fractions. The manipulatives used were hexagons. Each hexagon is part of a whole unit. If there is 2 hexagons, then one of those hexagons represents 1/2 or one half of the whole unit.

The single yellow hexagon represents 1/2 and the two hexagons stacked represents the whole unit below.

After that, we used smaller manipulatives like green triangles, blue rhombi and red trapezoids to show the fractions than can be made with the different shapes inside 

Six green triangles can fit in the single yellow hexagon. Therefore, you can cut a hexagon in 6 different ways.

Three blue rhombi can fit in the single yellow hexagon. One rhombus makes 1/3 of the hexagon.

Two trapezoids make up the single yellow hexagon. One trapezoid makes 1/2 of the hexagon.