Description
How would your students answer the following questions about fractions: What is a fractional part? How do fractions get their name? How and why do we count fractional parts?
Being able to answer these questions is fundamental to building fluency with fractions. This course, taught by Mary Headley from Math with Mary, is part one in a series designed to help you teach fractions deeply, enabling your students to learn fractions with understanding and to retain that knowledge.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- Understand instructional strategies for teaching fractions
- Use models to teach the conceptual development of fractional parts
- Identify examples and nonexamples of fractional parts
- Recognize how building a strong foundation for fractions impacts future success in mathematics
- Eliminate “fracnophobia” from your classroom
- Implement the skills students use to process mathematics into your lessons on fractions
