Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Concrete Representations are SO Important!

In our district, we have been really making an effort to represent math concepts concretely first, then pictorially, then abstractly. This article gives a great example for how to uses oranges as a concrete item for learning about fraction division.

Alfinio Flores and Melina D. Priewe 
December 2013, Volume 19, Issue 5, Page 288