Review Unit: Fraction Operations

This is my longest (and most dreaded) review lesson for my 7th graders, fractions. When my students get to 7th grade they are supposed to be able to add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions easily...about 3 actually can. It is nearly impossible to teach operations with rational numbers, proportion and scale drawings without revisiting fractions. After my first year of teaching, I learned that it would be far easier and less time consuming to take time out at the beginning of the year to cover fractions then to have to reteach fractions each time they showed up in a lesson. I work on fractions again in the first Unit with we work with Operations with Rational Numbers, so it is super helpful for them to have this to look back at. I found this great fraction review packet that summarizes everything so easily. I also wanted to have a visual of the fractions that is similar to the magnet strips I have on my white board. I found a blank fraction template for them to color and write the fraction on each piece. I spent a day on each section of the booklet: equivalent fractions, reducing, adding and subtracting, multiplying,  and dividing (5 days in total). There was an IXL lesson for each section so I used that as their practice problems/homework each day.

The "I Can" statement for this activity is:
I can use fractions to solve problems in the real world.

The IXL Lessons for each day were:
F.1: Equivalent Fractions
F.2: Simplifying Fractions
F.4: Least Common Denominator
F.7: Convert between Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions
G.16: Add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions and mixed numbers: word problems