A matching worksheet on equivalent fractions for 3rd grade, moving from strips to number lines to a fraction bank. Students pair 1/2, 1/3, 3/4, and 2/5 with lettered strips showing 2/4, 2/6, 6/8, and 4/10, find which eighths fraction shares a point with 2/4, and complete four number sentences from a bank of 2/8, 3/6, 4/6, and 6/8. A closing prompt asks how two fractions with different numbers can name the same amount.
3.NF.3.a
“Understand two fractions as equivalent (equal) if they are the same size, or the same point on a number line.”
Part 2, where 2/4 and 4/8 sit at the same point of stacked number lines, and 2/3 lines up with 4/6.
3.NF.3.b
“Recognize and generate simple equivalent fractions, e.g., 1/2 = 2/4, 4/6 = 2/3. Explain why the fractions are equivalent, e.g., by using a visual fraction model.”
The strip matching in Part 1 and the fraction-bank sentences in Part 3, capped by the written explanation of 1/2 = 2/4 in question 8.
Four fraction strips on the left (1/2, 1/3, 3/4, 2/5) meet four lettered strips of identical length on the right (A. 4/10, B. 2/4, C. 6/8, D. 2/6). Students write the letter whose shading matches exactly.
Two stacked number-line diagrams carry a dot each: 2/4 on a fourths line above an eighths line, then 2/3 on a thirds line above a sixths line. Students name the fraction directly below each dot.
A fraction bank of 2/8, 3/6, 4/6, and 6/8 completes the sentences 1/2 =, 1/4 =, 2/3 =, and 3/4 =. Question 8 then asks in writing why 1/2 and 2/4 are equivalent.
Lesson two of equivalence
Use it the day after fraction-strip folding. The lettered strips are the same lengths students folded, so the match feels like recognition rather than a new rule.
Anchor-chart material
The stacked fourths-over-eighths diagram in Part 2 makes a clean class anchor chart. Have students copy it after finding that 4/8 shares the dot.
Quick conference
Read each student's question 8 answer. The key's version says two 1/4 pieces equal one 1/2 piece; anything about "doubling both numbers" without a size argument needs a follow-up chat.
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