It's getting to be "fraction season" for many of us, and having quality fraction lessons and activities is SO important as we try to teach this challenging topic! Teaching fractions is a passion of mine and led me to create an entire fraction unit that I've shared on my blog over the years. Over time, people were SO excited to try the lessons and wanted more and more detail about how to teach ... Read the Post
Fractions are Numbers
Teaching fractions is a challenge for many teachers, and so much of it is because WE didn't have good fraction instruction! I hope this blog post can give you a few key points to ground your thinking about fractions and the best approaches to take when teaching about these important numbers! Fractions...more than pizza So many textbooks focus on fractions of areas/regions. Students are asked ... Read the Post
A Balanced Approach to Fractions: Wholes, Sets, and Measurement
Welcome back! If you have been following this series of blog posts all about fractions and improving our fraction instruction and learning, I welcome you to day 3! If you are new to the series, feel free to snoop around at POST 1 and POST 2 when you have time for more foundation information about teaching fractions. Today I want to focus on something I briefly touched upon in that first ... Read the Post
Getting Students Ready to Learn Fractions: Gradual Release and More
In my earlier post, I talked about the many factors that make fractions challenging for students. If you missed it, you can read it by clicking RIGHT HERE. Before my next few posts where I tackle some "in the trenches" ideas about fractions, I want to talk about gradual release, an instructional strategy that is true in good math instruction across ALL topics. What is "Gradual Release" of ... Read the Post
What makes teaching fractions so challenging?
If you have followed me or seen any of my webinars, you know that I wholeheartedly believe that all students can learn math at a high level--and we, as teachers, need to constantly strive to refine our teaching strategies and methods so that we reach ALL students...no matter their starting point. This is especially true for fractions which can be one of the most challenging things we teach. This ... Read the Post
Fraction Concepts Day 2! Conceptions, Misconceptions, and Mathematical Language
Well, things got even more interesting as my work with fractions unfolded on day 2! For those of you who read my first fraction post, I discussed how we used paper folding to get our fraction concepts unit "launched", and we ran out of time to finish the investigation before digging into some fraction misconceptions. I gave them another 25 minutes today to work on folding their different ... Read the Post
Fraction Folding–discovery learning
Today we kicked off our fraction unit, and I think I am going to really try to do a lot of blogging about it over the next few weeks--because I will be immersed in it AND because it is such a critical component of the Common Core for intermediate grades. I think it is vital that we dialogue about ways to help students build their understanding of fractions, so I invite you to share along with me ... Read the Post
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