Many students cruise along just fine in math until fourth grade or so. Then, they hit a wall—fractions. The wall is about to get taller. With mastery of the topic seen as a crucial stepping stone to ...
Standing in front of a classroom, Kris Huffman launches into a lesson on fractions. A lesson on how to teach fractions, that is. That’s because Huffman isn’t teaching his regular group of students: ...
We present a case study of teaching and learning fraction addition on number lines in one 6th-grade classroom that used the Connected Mathematics Project Bits and Pieces II materials. Our main ...