Beyond Invert in addition to Multiply Book Study Part 4

We bring made it to our 4th as well as lastly calendar week of this majority study!  It has been a nifty summertime learning close fractions as well as I am excited to live dorsum inwards the classroom putting what I bring learned to practiced use.  If yous bring missed previous posts, yous tin forcefulness out cheque them out past times clicking on the links below

July eighth Part 1: What is a Fraction?

July 15th Part 2: Addition as well as Subtraction alongside Fractions
July 29th Part 4: Discourse alongside Fractions  

Chapter 8 Developing Awareness: Six Strategies for Fostering Student Talk About Fractions

This department of the majority steps away from the ideas close developing fraction reasoning as well as instead focuses on how to construction your shape as well as thence that yous tin forcefulness out furnish opportunities for kids to verbalise close fractions.  A lot of the strategies presented inwards this department are practiced instruction strategies that are also rattling beneficial classroom practices inwards general.  

Strategy 1: Using Strategic Tasks

If yous desire your students to create conceptual noesis close fractions rather than merely learning the steps of a formalized procedure, yous demand to brand certain yous are giving them tasks that bring something worth talking about.  They powerfulness live opened upward ended, able to live solved inwards multiple ways as well as volition brand your students think.  Selecting a chore that they tin forcefulness out usage some prior noesis to create upward from is also a practiced idea.  I mean value the powerfulness to alternative strategic tasks comes alongside fourth dimension as well as practice.  If the chore yous alternative isn't working the agency yous desire it to, endeavour something else!

Strategy 2: Creating Records of Thinking

Having students tape their thinking or ideas inwards some agency is a nifty agency to portion their thinking alongside classmates as well as to attention organize their thoughts.  I used to bring kids re-create downward their thinking on an overhead transparency or on the board when it was fourth dimension to portion ideas.  Now that I bring a document photographic television set camera inwards every room, this has gotten as well as thence much easier to portion what kids are thinking.  Some kids powerfulness demand attention recording their thinking when they are showtime starting out but it is a nifty strategy for edifice pupil talk.

Strategy 3: Building Visual Models

Get nifty math tools into your students hands!  Fraction manipulatives such every bit fraction strips, or Cuisenaire rods every bit good every bit pose out lines are a nifty agency to create conceptual agreement as well as engage kids inwards a hands on way.  

Strategy 4: Reasoning alongside Benchmarks as well as the Number Line

I honey how using benchmarks helps kids mean value close their calculations as well as the reasonableness of their answers.  Thinking close how unopen a pose out is to 1/2 or 1 tin forcefulness out actually attention kids come across if their answers brand sense.  This is estimation at its finest.  

Strategy 5: Using Talk Moves

Out of all the verbalise moves described inwards this chapter, hold back fourth dimension was the i I needed to operate on the most.  I was i of those teachers who would enquire a inquiry as well as await an immediate response.  Since purposefully working on my hold back time, I bring noticed a huge departure inwards the pose out of kids who are create to participate.  For a lot to a greater extent than close verbalise moves, cheque out this book.  

Strategy 6: Asking Students to Turn as well as Talk

This is i of my favorite strategies every bit a instructor as well as every bit a learner.  When I bring a run a peril to verbalise to mortal close my ideas, it helps me organize them, railroad train them as well as live meliorate able to articulate my thinking.  I notice the same is truthful for my students as well as I usage plow as well as verbalise many times each day.  

How create yous comprise pupil verbalise inwards your fraction lessons?