How You Can Teach Fractions Without Fear! Great Ideas!
We need to be teaching Fractions for conceptual understanding
Think hard about teaching fractions while you watch Dina Mendola’s session,
The Struggle is Real: Fear Not the Fraction.
The tasks and materials we present to students have a huge impact on the connections they make.
Teaching fractions for conceptual understanding is a must!
And we must first develop that understanding for ourselves.
Graham Fletcher: Making Sense of Fraction Progressions
We all agree that fractions are a critical topic for students to understand.
Another great resource for our own learning is
Graham Fletcher’s Progression of Fractions video. It is only 7- minutes long, but you can find many more progression videos here.