Making Sense Of Fractions

Author : Randy Palisoc
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781514649183
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Fractions written by Randy Palisoc and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frustrated with fractions? They're easier than you think. Fractions have been given a bad rap. Understanding fractions is essential in math, yet too many students struggle to make sense of them. Even if students have performed well in math early in elementary school, they seem to hit a brick wall when it comes the "abstract" concepts involved with fractions. This is how Making Sense of Fractions helps. This unit challenges the long-held assumption that fractions are difficult because they're abstract. Fractions are actually more concrete and more logical than most people realize. Making Sense of Fractions helps students make these realizations, and it has a different philosophy from past approaches. This unit explains fractions in a more concrete way that makes logical sense to students (and to adults), making fractions easier to learn than before. Essential concepts include: * Simplifying Fractions * Adding Fractions * Subtracting Fractions * Multiplying Fractions * Dividing Fractions * Improper Fractions and Mixed Numbers * GCF (Greatest Common Factor) and LCM (Lowest Common Multiple)

Author : Julie McNamara
Publisher : Math Solutions Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781935099574
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Invert and Multiply, Grades 3-6 written by Julie McNamara and published by Math Solutions Publications. This book was released on 2015 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource builds on the foundational understandings that are described inBeyond Pizzas and Pies: 10 Essential Strategies for Supporting Fraction Sense and applies them to situations involving fraction computation. The eight stand-alone chapters are organized within the same friendly, easily accessible framework asBeyond Pizzas and Pies. Each chapter offers classroom activities for investigating the meaning of fractions; fractions as numbers; fraction addition and subtraction; fraction multiplication and division; and classroom discussions on fractions. Activities are connected to the Common Core State Standards and include reproducibles. The accompanying DVD brings to life many of the activities in the book, featuring more than 30 authentic classroom video clips.

Author : Julie McNamara
Publisher : Math Solutions
ISBN 13 : 1935099132
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Pizzas & Pies written by Julie McNamara and published by Math Solutions. This book was released on 2010 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This resource combines current research and practical strategies to support teachers in understanding and addressing the most common misconceptions that students have about fractions and presents opportunities to help students investigate, discuss, revise, expand, and refine their understanding of fractions. Includes reproducibles, bibliography, and index"--

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0590437704
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eating Fractions written by and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food is cut into halves, quarters, and thirds to illustrate how parts make a whole. Simple recipes included.

Author : Kathryn Bouchard Chval
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780873537322
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Putting Essential Understanding of Fractions Into Practice in Grades 3-5 written by Kathryn Bouchard Chval and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do your students suppose that 1/3 is greater than 1/2, since 3 is greater than 2? Do they believe that having “halves” means having two, and only two, congruent “pieces” of a whole? What tasks can you offer—what questions can you ask—to determine what your students know or don’t know—and move them forward in their thinking? This book focuses on the specialised pedagogical content knowledge that you need to teach fractions effectively in grades 3–5. The authors demonstrate how to use this multifaceted knowledge to address the big ideas and essential understandings that students must develop for success with fractions—not only in their current work, but also in higher-level mathematics and a myriad of real-world contexts. Explore rich, research-based strategies and tasks that show how students are reasoning about and making sense of fractions. Use the opportunities that these and similar tasks provide to build on their understanding while identifying and correcting misunderstandings that may be keeping them from taking the next steps in learning.

Author : Sarah K Major
Publisher : Child1st Publications LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781936981977
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Right-Brained Fractions written by Sarah K Major and published by Child1st Publications LLC. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come on a fun filled fractions adventure with the Ator brothers! Num Ator loves to count! He shares a house with his twin brother Nom Ator who lives downstairs. Nom loves to name things! This dynamic duo is the missing link for students who struggle with fractions. With wonderful storytelling, vibrant images, and exciting activities Right-Brained Fractions provides the groundwork to develop and reinforce fraction skills, which is achieved by students being able to create their own models to visualize each problem being solved. This valuable resource is specifically designed to engage and support any child's unique style of learning.

Author : Susan B. Empson
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 : 9780325030531
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extending Children's Mathematics written by Susan B. Empson and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the collaboration of a number of dedicated teachers and their students, Susan Empson and Linda Levi have produced a volume that is faithful to the basic principles of CGI while at the same time covering new ground with insight and innovation." -Thomas P. Carpenter This highly anticipated follow-up volume to the landmark Children's Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction addresses the urgent need to help teachers understand and teach fraction concepts. Fractions remain one of the key stumbling blocks in math education, and here Empson and Levi lay a foundation for understanding fractions and decimals in ways that build conceptual learning. They show how the same kinds of intuitive knowledge and sense making that provides the basis for children's learning of whole number arithmetic can be extended to fractions and decimals. Just as they did in Children's Mathematics and Thinking Mathematically, Empson and Levi provide important insights into children's thinking and alternative approaches to solving problems. Three themes appear throughout the book: building meaning for fractions and decimals through discussing and solving word problems the progression of children's strategies for solving fraction word problems and equations from direct modeling through relational thinking designing instruction that capitalizes on students' relational thinking strategies to integrate algebra into teaching and learning fractions. With illuminating examples of student work, classroom vignettes, "Teacher Commentaries" from the field, sample problems and instructional guides provided in each chapter, you'll have all the tools you need to teach fractions and decimals with understanding and confidence.

Author : Bonnie H. Litwiller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Fractions, Ratios, and Proportions written by Bonnie H. Litwiller and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excellent resource for mathematics educators that emphasizes the importance of understanding fractions, ratios, and proportions as early as elementary school. Also provides classroom challenges.

Author : Monica Neagoy
Publisher : ASCD
ISBN 13 : 1416621237
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unpacking Fractions written by Monica Neagoy and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, the teaching and learning of fractions has been associated with rote memorization. But this mechanical approach to instruction—which strips students of an ability to reason or make sense of math—has resulted in a failure of understanding. Author Monica Neagoy, drawing on decades of research studies, evidence from teacher practice, and 25 years of experience working around the world with teachers, students, and parents, addresses seven big ideas in the teaching and learning of fractions in grades 2–6. Each idea is supported by a vignette from a real classroom, common misconceptions, a thorough unpacking of productive mathematical thinking, and several multistep and thought-provoking problems for teachers to explore. She offers three fundamental reasons why it’s imperative for us to take a closer look at how we teach fractions: 1. Fractions play a key role in students’ feelings about mathematics. 2. Fractions are fundamental to school math and daily life. 3. Fractions are foundational to success in algebra. While a solid grounding in algebra is necessary for a STEM career, the worthy goal of “algebra for all” will not be possible until “fractions for all” is a reality. Unpacking Fractions provides teachers with concrete strategies for achieving that reality—in short, helping all students gain the knowledge they need to feel at ease with fractions.

Author : Jo Boaler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119358809
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mindset Mathematics written by Jo Boaler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engage students in mathematics using growth mindset techniques The most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you'll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by looking at the big ideas at the first-grade level through visualization, play, and investigation. During their work with tens of thousands of teachers, authors Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, and Cathy Williams heard the same message—that they want to incorporate more brain science into their math instruction, but they need guidance in the techniques that work best to get across the concepts they needed to teach. So the authors designed Mindset Mathematics around the principle of active student engagement, with tasks that reflect the latest brain science on learning. Open, creative, and visual math tasks have been shown to improve student test scores, and more importantly change their relationship with mathematics and start believing in their own potential. The tasks in Mindset Mathematics reflect the lessons from brain science that: There is no such thing as a math person - anyone can learn mathematics to high levels. Mistakes, struggle and challenge are the most important times for brain growth. Speed is unimportant in mathematics. Mathematics is a visual and beautiful subject, and our brains want to think visually about mathematics. With engaging questions, open-ended tasks, and four-color visuals that will help kids get excited about mathematics, Mindset Mathematics is organized around nine big ideas which emphasize the connections within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and can be used with any current curriculum.