Full Description
Supporting and understanding your students' fractional knowledge is crucial to their overall grasp of numbers and mathematics. By centralizing around three key stages of development, this effective guide will help you to assess your students' understanding of fractions and modify your teaching accordingly.
These key stages are identified as:
Stage 1a: Fair Sharing
Stage 1b: Part-Whole
Stage 2a: Disembedding and IteratingStage 2b: Measuring with Unit Fractions
Stage 2c: Reversing Fractions
Stage 3a: Fractions as Numbers
Stage 3b: Operating with Fractions
As the newest addition to the bestselling Maths Recovery Series, this book will be a useful guide for all primary classroom teachers and assistants, including experienced Mathematics Recovery instructors.
Contents
Introduction
Professional Learning and Three Grand Organizers for Arithmetic Instruction
From Whole Numbers to Fractions
Assessing Stages of Units Coordination
Teaching Students at Stage 1: Fragmenting
Transitioning to Stage 2: Part-Whole Reasoning
Teaching Students at Stage 2: Measuring with Unit Fractions
Teaching Students at Stage 2: Reversible Reasoning
Teaching Students at Stage 3: Fractions as Numbers
Teaching Students at Stages 2 and 3: Equal Sharing of Multiple Items
Teaching Students at Stages 2 and 3: Multiplying Fractions
Teaching Students at Stages 2 and 3: Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Teaching Students at Stages 2 and 3: Dividing Fractions
From Fractions to Algebra
