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  • FRACTIONS! Meaning Making for Adding Fractions

    Fractions is one of the most challenging topics in math. Here’s an approach to help introduce fractions. I show the photo above, explain to a student that he and I both paid for the pizza. We are going to finish eating the pizza and I get the slice on the left. I ask “is this…

  • Fraction Word Problems Scaffolded

    Above is a handout used to scaffold student work with fraction word problems (more on this below). Here is a type of word problem I recently encountered in working with a student with special needs: There are 60 students. 3/5 of the students are girls. How many students are girls? The student struggled with this problem…

  • Fractions, Decimals and Percents Number Line

    Good resource for students who struggle with the relationship between these three forms.