Lesson Plan: Finding the Whole Set
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to find the whole set when we know a unit fraction of the whole.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- use models to find the whole set when given a unit fraction of the whole,
- identify the whole set when given a unit fraction of the whole,
- solve word problems involving finding the whole set given a unit fraction of the whole.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- identifying fractions of a set,
- making a whole.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- finding the whole set when given a nonunit fraction of the whole,
- finding fractions of a quantity.