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Cramer, Kathleen A.; Monson, Debra S.; Wyberg, Terry; Leavitt, Seth; Whitney, Stephanie B. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2009
Appropriate concrete and pictorial models allow students to construct meaning for rational numbers and operations with the numbers. To develop deep understanding of rational number, sixth through eighth graders must experience a variety of models (NCTM 2000). Since 1979, personnel from the Rational Number Project (RNP), a cooperative research and…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Grade 8, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction
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Gregg, Jeff; Gregg, Diana Underwood – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2007
This article discusses two sequences of activities that were developed to support middle school students' and preservice teachers' construction of algorithms for dividing fractions. One sequence is intended to promote understanding of the common-denominator algorithm; the other sequence is intended to promote understanding of the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Learning Activities