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What is Fraction

Chapter 19
Handbook of Research on Promoting Higher-Order Skills and Global Competencies in Life and Work
Fraction is a concept that consists of four interrelated sub-constructs: ratio, operator, quotient, and measure.
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Incorporating Representation-Based Instruction Into Mathematics Teaching: Engaging Middle Schoolers With Multiple Representations of Adding Fractions
Fadime Ulusoy (Kastamonu University, Turkey) and Lutfi Incikabi (Kastamonu University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6331-0.ch019
Abstract
Developing students' abilities in using and selecting appropriate representations and making transformations between representations is an important issue in mathematics education. Among the mathematical concepts, fractions have always reported as a challenging issue for students in the middle schools for a long time. In this sense, researchers have suggested the use of different representations in learning and teaching of fractions in order to enhance students' conceptual understandings of fractions. Based on this suggestion, we provide some activities for engaging middle school students with multiple representations of fractions by focusing on addition operation. These activities are focused on the need to identify appropriate instructional strategies to enhance students' communication and critical thinking, thus improving their academic performance in mathematics.
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“Who Else Would I Even Talk To?”: Supporting Prospective Teachers' Engagement With Student Thinking Through a Community of Practice
Defined as a non-negative rational number that can be written in the form a/b where a and b are both integers and b does not equal zero (Behr, Lesh, Post, & Silver, 1983 AU6: The in-text citation "Behr, Lesh, Post, & Silver, 1983" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ; Charalambous & Pitta-Pantazi, 2005 AU7: The in-text citation "Charalambous & Pitta-Pantazi, 2005" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ; Kieran, 1976 AU8: The in-text citation "Kieran, 1976" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ; Olanoff, Lo, & Tobias, 2014 AU9: The in-text citation "Olanoff, Lo, & Tobias, 2014" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
Published in Chapter: “Who Else Would I Even Talk To?”: Supporting Prospective Teachers' Engagement With Student Thinking Through a Community of Practice; From: Global Perspectives and Practices for Reform-Based Mathematics Teaching
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