Fraction Fireworks
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
This project is based off the celebrations that happen in the book the Phantom Tollbooth. It's a neat art project to do, and very visually appealing. We just used marker and pencil for ours, but it could definitely rock some watercolors.
The Objective: Students will explore fractions, by creating a visual depiction of fractions relations to one another.
The project:
1. Students all start with the number one. This is drawn as a rocket on the bottom of the page, and then is drawn blasting off to a point in the middle of their paper.
2. When the students rocket "explodes" it breaks into pieces. If it breaks into two pieces, one out of two 1/2 goes one way, the other one out of two 1/2 goes the other way in a symmetrical fashion. Be sure to emphasize symmetry.
3, When the one half gets to the end of its rope, it then explodes again, into another 2 pieces. Explain to students how when one half is divided in two, it become two 1/4 pieces. (You can of course have them choose different numbers for instance if 1/2 breaks into 3 pieces, each piece becomes 1/6th)
4. Continue this process until the numbers get to difficult to multiply! Have fun and hang up afterward.
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