Pizza Fractions PBL – 4th Grade Math Project Based Learning

Description

Connect classroom skills to a practical project with purposeful decisions and problem solving.

• Grades: 4
• Format: Printable pages + Google Slides

Learning Objective

Students will represent, compare, and calculate with fractions through pizza-sharing and recipe problems.

What's Included

• For the Teacher, Standards, and Directions
• For the Student, Welcome to Pizza, Pizza, Tasks
• Pizza Fractions (Creating fractions, ordering fractions, equivalent fractions, word problems)
• Cooking Pizza (Elapsed time word problems)
• Selling Pizza (Money word problems)
• Be a Pizza Maker (Follow directions to make your own pizza with follow-up questions)
• Make the Cut (More pizza fraction word problems)
• Pizza Data (Make a bar graph, interpret data, write your own comparison questions)
• Challenge 1 (Determine pizza costs and profit)
• Challenge 2 (Complete a table using pizza data, word problems using data)
• Challenge 3 (Create a poster for advertising spring specials)
• Self-evaluation Reflection and Rubric
• Answer Key

Ways to Use

Project-based learning, enrichment, collaborative problem solving, or a culminating activity.

Preparation

Preview the student pages, choose the activities, and print the pages you need. For digital use, check device and internet access and assign the version you will use.

Standards & Skills

Source-listed alignment: 4.OA.A.1, 4.OA.A.3, 4.NBT.B.4, 4.NBT.B.5, 4.NF.A.1, 4.NF.A.2, 4.NF.B.3, 4.NF.B.4, 4.MD.A.2, 4.MD.B.4.