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Teacher-Coach Reflection on Practice: Fractions as Numbers
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March 17, 2014
By WestEd
This self-assessment helps teachers reflect on strategies they can use to improve students’ understanding of fractions as numbers with magnitudes that extend whole numbers. Related Files and Media: Developing Effective Fractions Instruction for Kindergarten Through 8th Grade (Practice Guide) Number Lines: A Key Representational Tool...
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Recognizing Fractions as Numbers
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March 18, 2014
By WestEd
Watch this multimedia overview explaining why number lines are recommended as a central representational tool to teach students about fractions and how teachers can help students understand fractions as numbers, relationships between fractions, and fractions as units of measure. This practice contains three tools focused on fractions concepts. Related Files: Transcript
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Learning Together About Number Lines
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March 17, 2014
By WestEd
Math coaches can present this workshop to primary- and intermediate-grade teachers to demonstrate the versatile uses of number lines in explaining fraction concepts. Related Files and Media: Number Lines: A Key Representational Tool (Video) The Concepts Behind Operations (Video) Fraction Game on Number Lines (Slideshow with audio and...
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Observing Students' Understanding Through Fraction Games
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March 17, 2014
By WestEd
Using this observation tool, teachers can monitor students’ understanding of fraction concepts as they play the several fraction games highlighted throughout this topic. Related Files and Media: Fraction Strip Game: Cover Up (Sample Material) Fraction Tracks Game (Sample Material) Making and Using Fraction Strips (Video) Fractions on a Number Line (Video)