Fraction Foundations – Building Fraction Fluency in your Classroom
This course focuses on the foundations necessary for fraction fluency and how to help students build the conceptual understandings they need in order to work successfully with fractions. The course is self-paced and is a blend of online learning and video demonstration. Participants will learn the big ideas that students must know in order to understand fractional parts and explore and use a variety of concrete models that can be used to teach these essential understandings. This course is designed to help you boost your teacher content knowledge and to allow you to explore a wide variety of instructional strategies that you can use as classroom activities and/or intervention strategies.
Topics include:
- Essential Fraction Foundations: Defining, Naming, and Counting Fractional Parts
- Comparing the Size of Fractional Parts
- Using Concrete Models as Teaching Tools
- Representing Fractions Symbolically
- Unit Fractions
- Composing and Decomposing Fractions
- Fractions on a Number Line
- Fraction Equivalency
- Comparing Fractions
Additionally, participants will learn how to help students acquire these critical fractions concepts by incorporating the following ideas from the math process standards into their instruction.
- Communicating
- Using Math Tools
- Making Connections
- Multiple Representations
- Reasoning and Justification
This course is self-paced and includes two modules:
Module 1: Aligns with Grade 2 TEKS
Module 2: Aligns with Grade 3 TEKS
There is an assignment to complete at the end of Module 2.
The workshop supports T-TESS Domain 2 - Instruction.
Learn to convey accurate content knowledge pertaining to fractions in multiple ways and provide opportunities for student to use different types of thinking.
Additionally, this course will provide you with instructional strategies that will help you differentiate your instruction in order to help student master what is being taught.