Home
Resource
Fourth Graders Explore the Magnitude of Fractions and Make Comparisons
ANALYTIC
Play analytic
Citation & Export
Related Resources (4)
View Usage Statistics
Staff View

Citation & Export
Hide

Simple citation

Fourth Graders Explore the Magnitude of Fractions and Make Comparisons. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3736SQH

Export

Click here for information about Citation Management Tools at Rutgers.

Related Resources (4)
Hide

Statistics
Hide

Description

TitleFourth Graders Explore the Magnitude of Fractions and Make Comparisons
NameGerstein, Miriam (Creator); Maher, Carolyn (Publisher)
Date Created2014-02-17T12:47:26-0400
Other Date2015-06-18T13:50:45-0400 (modified)
Other Date2015-06-18T13:57:41-0400 (published)
DescriptionThis analytic reveals how task design and the revisiting of tasks that involve concrete models allow children to build deep understandings of fundamental concepts that often receive superficial treatment in standard curricula. In this case, children internalize the concepts of “common denominators” without using the term. At the end of an eleven-session unit on fraction comparison, the children evidence their intuitive grasp of the ways in which fractions can be compared. In the first part the students worked on comparing ¼ and 1/9. James as well as some other students successfully built models to show the difference as 5/36. In the next class session, after reviewing with the students what they had done, Researcher, Maher asked the them to compare a few fractions David was able to build on the knowledge of what they had worked on in the previous sessions to show the numerical progression of the fractions. This analytic demonstrates that the students intuitively understood the magnitude of fractions as a culmination of the work of the past 12 sessions.
GenreLesson activity, Professional development activity, Student elaboration
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3736SQH
CollectionRBDIL Analytics
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
Version 8.5.1
Rutgers University Libraries - Copyright ©2023