The Common Core State Standards emphasize the need to make sense of multiplying and dividing fractions: “Students [also] use the meaning of fractions, of multiplication and division, and the relationship between multiplication and division to understand and explain why the procedures for multiplying and dividing fractions make sense.” (CCSS, page 33)
As the folks at...
Posted by Robyn Silbey on Sep. 23, 2011
It's another school year and the other day I got to work with a great teacher who works with students with learning disabilities, as well as Tier II and III students in our RtI model.
I was helping her learn how to use her new interactive whiteboard and we began talking about some of her students who struggle with fractions, which led to a trip to...
Posted by Matthew Press on Sep. 13, 2011
