


Then that left them with their denominator being 1 digit larger. No matter how many times I told my students to count the spaces, not the tick marks, I still had so many students count the tick marks. I couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong. The first few years of teaching fractions my students failed most number line activities. I will also show you the printables I use to prepare my students for our state test. In this article, I will share with you my amazing strategies with pictures. These same teachers are the reason I shared my hands on place value activities In my other blog post. So now I am sharing two strategies that I completely rely on in order to teach fractions on a number line in 3rd grade. I was the one that taught them how to teach fractions on a number line. They were amazed at how easy it could be to teach fractions on a number line 3rd grade when you use this strategy. My co-teachers encouraged me to share this strategy with you all. This is all until I discovered the BEST STRATEGY EVER for teaching this objective. Every year that we had to teach how to put fractions on a number line or name a fraction on a number line, I used to cringe. I never knew how complicated teaching fractions on a number line in 3rd grade could be until I started doing it.
