Transitions in the Conception of Number: From Whole Numbers to Rational Numbers to Algebra

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 23.03.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. School Demographic
  3. Rationale
  4. Content Objective
  5. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  6. Teaching Strategies
  7. Using Fraction strips
  8. Partitioning Shapes
  9. Sample Activities
  10. Activity 2
  11. Activity 3
  12. Activity 4
  13. Appendix
  14. Notes
  15. Annotated Bibliography

Teaching Elementary Fractions Using Fractions Strips

Jessica Mason

Published September 2023

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Notes

Witzel Bradley & Riccomini Paul, Computation of Fractions Math Intervention for Elementary and Middle Grades Students (New Jersey: Pearson,2009), 6.

Fernell Francis, Fractions are Foundational (NCTM News Bulletin, December 2007)

National Center for Education Statistics. (2001). The nation’s report card: Mathematics 2000. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics Press.

https://nces.ed.gov/nationreportcard/subject/publications/stt2022/pdf/2023011IL8.pdf

Maccini, Paula & Mulcahy, Candace & Wilson, Michael.  A Follow-Up of Mathematics Interventions for Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice. 22. 58-74 (2007)

Van de Walle John, Elementary and Middle School Mathematic Teaching Developmentally (Boston :Pearson, 2007) 293

Lamon S, Teaching Fractions and ratios for Understanding: Essential Content Knowledge and instructional strategies for teachers. (Mahwah, New Jersey,1999)

https://mathsnoproblem.com/en/approach/concrete-pictrial-abstract

https://educatewithease.com/fraction-strips/

Fisher Johnathan. Fraction: Partitioning and the part –whole concept.  Teaching and Learning.

Neagoy, Monica. 2017. Unpacking Fractions. Alexiandria, VA.

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