Teaching fractions and ratios for understanding: essential content knowledge and strategies for teachers ENC#: ENC-018784 Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc Date: 1999

Teachers, researchers, and curriculum developers can all find something of value in this book, which focuses on developing a deeper understanding of proportional reasoning and rational numbers. The book concentrates on enhancing teacher's mathematics content knowledge and understanding, examining student thinking, and exploring teaching methods, instructional activities, and assessment. Author Susan Lamon believes that using the same questions and activities given to students enables teachers to build comfort and confidence in their ability to teach complex ideas. The problems and activities are designed to be useful in elementary and middle school classrooms and during family math nights. Each chapter includes self-assessment sections that invite the reader to stop and work examples before continuing; in addition, there are activities to try out the new ideas presented. Mathematics concepts are developed through detailed illustrations. Excerpts of student work give the reader an idea of what to expect from students. An extensive bibliography offers further reading about the development of proportional reasoning and other rational number concepts. (Author/JRS) ENC-018784

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