Discipline: Mathematics, Professional Resources
Copyright: 2022
Grade(s): 3 - 9
Delivery Method: Print
Imprint: Pearson Canada
Author(s): Catherine D. Bruce, Tara Flynn, Shelley Yearley
This resource will help students to develop a deep understanding of
For educators, this resource will help you to assess students’ understanding and possible misconceptions via the use of targeted, field-tested questions and recommended next steps that
Eight core concepts form a trajectory of learning that moves generally from foundational to more complex ideas. The trajectory is designed to help students form strong schemas and mental representations of fractions, allowing them to work with increasingly difficult fractions ideas with understanding.
Core Concepts 1 to 4 lay a strong foundation for understanding fractions, while Core Concepts 5 to 8 allow students to apply this understanding to more complex thinking about fractions. Although the core concepts move in a direction of increasing complexity, they do not act as a linear prescription for learning. Rather, relationships across the core concepts allow us, as educators, to identify students’ needs and support their learning by moving among concepts.
The book consists of two sections.
Chapters 2 through 4 give you background information on why fractions are important and the long-term value of teaching fractions with an emphasis on unit fractions; the types of reasoning that support fractions understanding; and an overview of each of the eight core fractions concepts that are developed in the book.
There are eight core concepts in this resource. Each concept is explored in its own chapter that includes the following components:
The website is accessed via a unique code that is printed on the inside front cover of your book. It contains both necessary and supplementary material to the book, and includes