Resource: Reclaiming the Power
Media Type:
QuickTime Video
Length: 4m 32s
Size: 12.5 MB
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Hacker has consumed most of the power-supplying Cosmic Crumpets. Only pieces of crumpets are left. The CyberSquad must help Shari Spotter to restore the Frogsnorts wizards’ power by putting the remaining pieces of crumpets together, which involves the addition of fractions and converting mixed numbers to improper fractions. Then they must share the pieces equally among the seven wizards.
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Loading reviews...Teachers' Domain, Reclaiming the Power, published August 26, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.math.number.fra.reclaimpow/
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Print Frame and FocusHere are some Frame, Focus and Follow-up suggestions for using this video in a math lesson.
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Frame: If you ate half an apple, but were still hungry and ate another half, how much of an apple would you have eaten? What if you ate another half after that? Although fractions describe amounts that are less than one whole, these same fractions can be combined to create amounts that equal one whole or an even greater amount. Maybe the trickiest part of this is when you are adding different size fractions, like half an apple and a fourth of an apple. How would you go about figuring out how much apple that would be?
Focus: As you watch this segment, notice how the CyberSquad has to combine different sizes of Cosmic Crumpet pieces. Use a paper and pencil to record which fractional pieces they find and how they combine them. How many Cosmic Crumpets did they put together?
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Crumpets Recipe
(QuickTime Video)
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K-12 Subject:
Equivalent Fractions
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Source: Cyberchase: “Shari Spotter and the Cosmic Crumpets”
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