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Category: Math
| Curricula for Teaching about Fractions |
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This digest describes curriculum guides which offer help to teachers wanting to extend student ideas of fraction concepts, use manipulative materials in powerful ways, and help students connect fraction concepts. |
| Teaching Fractions: New Methods, New Resources |
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The teaching of fractions continues to hold the attention of mathematics teachers and education researchers worldwide. In what order should various representations be introduced? Should multiple representations be introduced early, or one representation pursued in depth once? Does it matter if fractions are introduced as counting or as measurement? What is the relative importance of procedural, factual, and conceptual knowledge in success with fractions? These and other questions remain debated in the literature. |
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