Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding
eBook - ePub

Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding

Essential Content Knowledge and Instructional Strategies for Teachers

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eBook - ePub

Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding

Essential Content Knowledge and Instructional Strategies for Teachers

About this book

The fifth edition of this user-friendly textbook helps mathematics educators explore and explain the complex world of rational numbers. It translates research into usable ideas for the classroom, including reasoning strategies, models, and questioning techniques that promote deep understanding that cannot be achieved by merely practicing fraction computation.

Updated throughout with new examples and models from research, each chapter in the new edition incorporates samples of student work for teacher analysis, as well as activities for practicing each thinking strategy, designed to be solved without rules or algorithms, using reasoning alone. All content has been used with students and is presented with the learner in mind, acknowledging the brilliance of students' insights as well as the issues that challenge their understanding. It covers a broad range of topics in the progression from relative thinking to proportional reasoning, including fractions, ratios, rates, operators, measures, percents, and more.

For over two decades, Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding has helped elementary and middle school teachers expand their understanding and teaching strategies for rational number topics. The fifth edition is essential reading for mathematics courses, teacher preparation courses, graduate courses preparing researchers in mathematics education, and parents engaged in home schooling.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040369289

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1 Proportional Reasoning: An Overview
  9. Chapter 2 Fractions and Rational Numbers
  10. CHAPTER 3 Relative Thinking and Measurement
  11. CHAPTER 4 Quantities and Covariation
  12. CHAPTER 5 Proportional Reasoning
  13. CHAPTER 6 Reasoning with Fractions
  14. CHAPTER 7 Fractions as Part–Whole Comparisons
  15. CHAPTER 8 Fractions as Quotients
  16. CHAPTER 9 Fractions as Operators
  17. CHAPTER 10 Fractions as Measures
  18. CHAPTER 11 Ratios and Rates
  19. CHAPTER 12 Distance–Speed–Time
  20. CHAPTER 13 Summary
  21. CHAPTER 14 Problem Solving
  22. Appendix
  23. Index