Beyond Pizzas & Pies: 10 Essential Strategies for Supporting Fraction Sense, Grades 3-5
Beyond Pizzas and Pies is smart, accessible, and usable. McNamara and Shaughnessy assemble the key resources and insights teachers need to help students develop robust understanding of fractions. Clear explanations of the specific mathematical ideas and research on key challenges for learners are coordinated with focused instructional tasks and detailed guidance for their use in the classroom. The tasks develop complex mathematical proficiency by combining work on concepts with skill development and the ability to use representations and to reason about fractions. --Deborah Loewenberg Ball, William H. Payne Collegiate Professor University of MichiganThe authors are right on developing 'fraction sense' is one of the most difficult tasks of new (or experienced) teachers. This book provides a wonderful resource for helping teachers help their students become truly fluent with fractions. --Barbara Reys, President Association of Mathematics Teacher EducatorsThis book addresses not just what students should learn about fractions, but how childrenactually think, where that thinking comes from, and what teachers can do to make theirinstruction more effective. Each chapter is carefully structured to present the research base aswell as classroom activities that can immediately be put to use. I can t wait to use the bookwith my preservice teachers, since it summarizes the most essential (and usable) informationabout the teaching and learning of fractions. --Laurie Edwards, Professor of Education Saint Mary s College of CaliforniaThe authors are right on developing 'fraction sense' is one of the most difficult tasks of new (or experienced) teachers. This book provides a wonderful resource for helping teachers help their students become truly fluent with fractions. --Barbara Reys, President Association of Mathematics Teacher EducatorsThis book addresses not just what students should learn about fractions, but how childrenactually think, where that thinking comes from, and what teachers can do to make theirinstruction more effective. Each chapter is carefully structured to present the research base aswell as classroom activities that can immediately be put to use. I can t wait to use the bookwith my preservice teachers, since it summarizes the most essential (and usable) informationabout the teaching and learning of fractions. --Laurie Edwards, Professor of Education Saint Mary s College of CaliforniaThe authors are right on developing 'fraction sense' is one of the most difficult tasks of new (or experienced) teachers. This book provides a wonderful resource for helping teachers help their students become truly fluent with fractions. --Barbara Reys, President Association of Mathematics Teacher EducatorsThis book addresses not just what students should learn about fractions, but how childrenactually think, where that thinking comes from, and what teachers can do to make theirinstruction more effective. Each chapter is carefully structured to present the research base aswell as classroom activities that can immediately be put to use. I can t wait to use the bookwith my preservice teachers, since it summarizes the most essential (and usable) informationabout the teaching and learning of fractions. --Laurie Edwards, Professor of Education Saint Mary s College of CaliforniaThe authors are right on developing 'fraction sense' is one of the most difficult tasks of new (or experienced) teachers. This book provides a wonderful resource for helping teachers help their students become truly fluent with fractions. --Barbara Reys, President Association of Mathematics Teacher EducatorsThis book addresses not just what students should learn about fractions, but how childrenactually think, where that thinking comes from, and what teachers can do to make theirinstruction more effective. Each chapter is carefully structured to present the research base aswell as classroom activities that can immediately be put to use. I can t wait to use the bookwith my preservice teachers, since it summarizes the most essential (and usable) informationabout the teaching and learning of fractions. --Laurie Edwards, Professor of Education Saint Mary s College of California