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Interactive Support for the 10 Essential Strategies. Our fractions tools support the instructional strategies found in this innovative new book about teaching fractions.
Beyond Pizzas & Pies
10 Essential Strategies for Supporting Fraction Sense,
Grades 3-5
Julie McNamara and Meghan M. Shaughnessy
This excellent instructional resource with its 10 Essential Strategies offers a unique and insightful approach to helping teachers excel at teaching fractions. We have collaborated with Julie McNamara to support the strategies in the book with our dynamic software tools. Dr. McNamara has been consulting on instructional design for our tools and is a valuable content partner.
Click below to find direct support for the 10 Essential Strategies, including ideas for using the tools and several classroom activities.
Strategies 9 and 10
Strategy 9. Provide opportunities for students to engage in mathematical discourse and share and discuss their mathematical ideas, even those that may not be fully formed or completely accurate.
Strategy 10. Provide opportunities for students to build on their reasoning and sense-making skills about fractions by working with a variety of manipulatives and tools.
Both of these strategies can be supported whenever using the fractions tools. During whole class instruction, the tools create opportunities for mathematical discourse betweens students and instructors. The breadth of interactive fractions models provided, including fraction bars, area model, discrete model, number line, pattern blocks and unitizing on a grid, present engaging interactive platforms for students to build upon their reasoning.