In my previous posts Teaching Fractions and Fractions On the Number Line I have discussed the statistics of how poorly most students understand fractions, and some of the ways we can teach for better understanding. In this post I want ...
The resources in this post will cover: introducing and developing understanding of the relationship between improper fractions and mixed numbers, the 4th grade standard of adding and subtracting mixed numbers with like denominators, the 5th grade standards of adding and ...
Fraction tiles, also called fraction bars or fraction strips, are the single most important manipulative you can have for teaching fractions. They are brightly colored plastic rectangles that represent a whole, halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, eighths, tenths, and twelfths. ...
According to an article in The Wall Street Journal, placing fractions on a number line in the correct order in third grade is a more important predictor of fourth-grade math performance than calculation skills, working memory, or even the ability ...
The Scientific American published an article called Fractions: Where It All Goes Wrong which gave a statistic saying that on standard fraction addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems 6th and 8th graders tend to answer correctly only about 50% of items. This once again ...