Teaching Fractions? Don’t Start With Sets

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Teaching Fractions? Don’t Start With Sets Why students think ¾ + ¾ = 6/8     Below is adapted from the video.  If you want the full context PLUS all the visuals I shared, watch the video. Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists!! Have you ever had a...

Subitizing With Fractions

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Subitizing With Fractions Transcript Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to: Subitizing With Fractions Subitizing has been heavily talked about for our young learners, but subitizing is so powerful for upper elementary kids for both fractions and...

Stop Using Circles When Teaching Fractions

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Candy Bars are better than Pies… when it comes to Fractions. “For percentages and decimals in general, the bar or the number line are the most obvious representational form to choose.” Transcript Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode...

How to Build Fraction Sense

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Today we’re going to talk about How to Build Fraction Sense in the Elementary Grades.  Operating with fractions is what most textbooks focus on.  But in order to understand the operations, we first need to develop fraction sense. I’m Christina Tondevold, The...

Fraction Rules That Expire

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Did you know that there are fraction rules that we teach kids that actually expire? Yeah, there are things that we teach them that work for right now, but they don’t work long term. Today, we’re going to explore fraction rules that expire. Watch the video or...

The #1 Manipulative For Teaching Fractions: Blank Fraction Tiles

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Today we take a look at the number one manipulative for teaching fractions: the blank fraction tiles. When kids are given a fraction visual like this, not many of them can say that this is actually 1/4. The majority of kids say that this is 1/3. Now, you may think...