Strategy: Advance Organizer
Content: Converting fractions to decimals
Title: Point Counterpoint
Number of participants : 1
Time required: 10 minutes
Target Audience: 6th and 7th grade students
Goal of Activity: to be able to convert any fraction to a decimal .
Purpose of script: to show how to use fractions as an advance organizer
for learning
to use decimals.
Learning Outcomes, Gagné’s Taxonomy: defined concepts
Learning Outcomes, HEO Taxonomy: application
Learner Characteristics: 6th and 7th grade students who are performing at
grade
level in language arts and arithmetic ope rations ( multiply ing-fractions/holt-text-online-cheat-shett.html">line /graphing-equations/what-are-the- rules -in-adding.html">add , subtract , multiply,
divide).
Entry Skills: Ability to access a file on a Macintosh computer, ability to
use a mouse,
knowledge of fractions.
Setting: At a computer in any location.
Media: Macintosh computer.
Process:
1. Using an authoring software program, present a straight line, then show it
being divided into halves , quarters, and eighths. Display the appropriate
fraction on each segment.
2. Remind the student of previous instruction in generating fractions and
calculating with fractions .
3. Demonstrate how to convert the fraction to a decimal by dividing the
denominator into the numerator and correctly placing the decimal point.
4. Explain how to round off the last digit when the quotient contains more
than 2 digits to the right of the decimal.
5. Explain how the fraction and decimal represent the same
information in
different forms .
Strategy Assessment:
1. Do the students understand how to generate fractions?
2. Are the students able to divide one and two digit numbers?
3. Are the students able to link the more common fractions with their
decimal counterpart (e. g., 1/4 = .25, 1/2 = .50)
Author: Ray Bland
