Fractions # 4 Measuring Water

MEASURING WATER 

WITH MEASURING CUPS

Honestly! This post has been in drafts for the longest time. My apologies. This was a very simple and effective way to reinforce our previous fraction lessons. I got 4 small, 1 cup measuring cups and 1 big, 4 cup measuring cup from the $ store.

This is how we did this activity

1. Fill 2 cups of water in the big measuring cup
2. Pour water in one of the small measuring cups upto the 1 cup mark
3. Look into the big cup and see how much water is left. Make the child observe. (Answer =1 cup, 2-1=1)
4. Now pour water in the 2nd small measuring cup upto the 1/2 cup mark
5. Again, look into the big cup and see how much water is left. Make the child observe. (Answer =1/2 cup, 1-1/2=1/2)
6. Next pour water in the 3rd small measuring cup upto the 1/4 cup mark
7.  Once again look into the big cup and see how much water is left now. Make the child observe. (Answer =1/4 cup, 1/2-1/4=1/4)
8. Lastly let the child pour water back and fourth to all measuring marks and discuss what they observe

 I let Lil Muallim # 2 then play around with the cups pouring back and forth. I let him do it just visually till he really got it ! 

Now playing with water is fun any time.... and then when Ummi not only let's you play with it in the study room, but actually set's up a tray for you to do it. rest assured they will come back to it again and again Alhumdolillah

Finally once I felt he saw the relation in his measuring and fractions, I made him write do it and then write in it his Math Notebook.

His observations......

A lesson well learnt Alhumdolillah !