MA.4.FR.2.3

Benchmark Instructional Guide

Connecting Benchmarks/Horizontal Alignment

• MA.4.NSO.2.7 
• MA.4.FR.1

Terms from the K-12 Glossary

• NA

Vertical Alignment

Previous Benchmarks

• MA.3.FR.1.2

Next Benchmarks

• MA.5.FR.2.1

Purpose and Instructional Strategies

• Instruction may include students shading decimal grids (10 × 10 grids) to support their understanding. 

• Subtraction of decimal fractions is not a requirement of grade 4.

Common Misconceptions or Errors

• Students often will add the numerators and the denominators without finding the like denominator. Students will need visual models to understand what the like denominator means.

Strategies to Support Tiered Instruction

• Instruction includes opportunities to explore the addition of a fraction with a denominator of 10 to a fraction with a denominator of 100 using visual models to help understand equivalent fractions. Students use visual models to make sense of equivalent fractions when finding like denominators. The teacher provides clarification that students must find the like denominator before adding. 
  • For example, the teacher displays the problem $\frac{\text{4}}{\text{10}}$ + $\frac{\text{23}}{\text{100}}$ and asks students to share what they notice about this expression. Students identify that the denominators are different. The teacher guides students to shade decimal grids to represent the understanding that $\frac{\text{4}}{\text{10}}$ is equivalent to $\frac{\text{40}}{\text{100}}$. This is repeated with similar addition problems and solved while supporting students as they use the visual models to problems that have denominators of 10 and 100. 

• For example, the teacher displays the problem $\frac{\text{24}}{\text{100}}$ + $\frac{\text{3}}{\text{10}}$ , asking students to share what they notice about this expression. Students identify that the denominators are different. The teacher guides students to use place value blocks and shaded decimal grids to represent the problem and solve, having tens rods represent tenths, and one's cubes represent hundredths. Students are supported as they use  the visual models to understand that $\frac{\text{3}}{\text{10}}$ is equivalent to $\frac{\text{30}}{\text{100}}$. This is repeated with similar addition problems that have denominators of 10 and 100. 

Instructional Tasks

Instructional Task 1 (MTR.5.1) 

• $\frac{\text{5}}{\text{10}}$ = $\frac{}{\text{100}}$

• $\frac{\text{31}}{\text{100}}$ + $\frac{\text{5}}{\text{10}}$ = 

Instructional Items

Instructional Item 1 

• $\frac{\text{3}}{\text{10}}$+ $\frac{\text{32}}{\text{100}}$

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