Field Trips and Fund-Raisers: Introducing Fractions (Contexts for Learning Mathematics, Grades 4-6: Investigating Fractions, Decimals and Percents)
Catherine Twomey Fosnot is the Founding Director of Mathematics in the City and former Professor of Education at The City College of the City of New York. She has twice received the "best writing" award from AERA's Constructivist SIG and she was the recipient of the "young scholar" award by Educational Communication and Technology Journal. She is the lead author of the Contexts for Learning Mathematics series as well as the Young Mathematicians at Work series.