Beyond Pizzas & Pies: 10 Essential Strategies for Supporting Fraction Sense, Grades 3-5

Beyond Pizzas & Pies: 10 Essential Strategies for Supporting Fraction Sense, Grades 3-5 by McNamara, Julie. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781935099130.

Combining current research and practical strategies, this valuable resource supports teachers in understanding and addressing students most common misconceptions about fractions, as well as the typical challenges they face. In each chapter, the authors discuss one common dilemma that students have with fractions and present classroom strategies and activities for preventing and addressing that dilemma.Each stand-alone chapter is organized within a friendly, easily accessible framework:* NCTM Connection* Classroom Scenario* What s the Math?* What s the Research?* Classroom Activities* Wrapping It UpA must-have for supporting teachers in providing opportunities for their students to investigate, discuss, revise, expand, and refine their understanding of fractions.Includes reproducibles.