Table of Contents
Introduction: Issues in Learning Fractions and Decimals: Rethinking Our Approach
1. Equal Sharing Problems and Children's Strategies for Solving Them
2. From the Classroom: Getting Started with Fractions
3. Multiple Groups problems and Children's Strategies for Solving Them
4. Relational Thinking: Connecting Fractions and Algebra
5. From the Classroom: Making Relational Thinking Explicit
6. Understanding Fraction Equivalence and Order
7. Understanding Decimals
8. Understanding Operations on Fractions and Decimals
9. The Long View: Learning to Use Children's Thinking to Guide Instruction