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Download full textWhat Works Clearinghouse, 2021
This document includes instructional tips on: (1) Building on students' informal understanding of sharing and proportionality to develop initial fraction concepts; (2) Helping students recognize that fractions are numbers that expand the number system beyond whole numbers, and using number lines to teach this and other fraction concepts; (3)…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Fractions, Elementary School Students
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
In this set of tips, parents and caregivers will learn how to: (1) support children's understanding of fractions at home with activities on dividing objects (recommended for grades K-5); (2) support children's understanding of fractions at home with measurement activities (recommended for grades K-4); (3) support children's understanding of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Fractions, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
Nada Dabbagh; Randall Bass; M. J. Bishop; Anthony G. Picciano; Jennifer Sparrow; Sarah Costelloe; Kristen Cummings; Brian Freeman; Michael Frye; Allan Porowski; Sandra Jo Wilson – What Works Clearinghouse, 2019
Despite increasing college enrollment and growing diversity of the college student population, college completion rates are low. Many colleges are exploring ways to leverage technology to improve student retention and increase the educational options for and success of their diverse student bodies. Web-based course or learning management systems…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Postsecondary Education, Academic Achievement, College Administration
Siegler, Robert; Carpenter, Thomas; Fennell, Francis; Geary, David; Lewis, James; Okamoto, Yukari; Thompson, Laurie; Wray, Jonathan – What Works Clearinghouse, 2010
This practice guide presents five recommendations intended to help educators improve students' understanding of, and problem-solving success with, fractions. Recommendations progress from proposals for how to build rudimentary understanding of fractions in young children; to ideas for helping older children understand the meaning of fractions and…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Problem Solving, Young Children, Elementary Education
What Works Clearinghouse, 2012
This protocol guided the review of research that informed the recommendations contained in the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide "Improving Mathematical Problem Solving in Grades 4 through 8," published in May 2012. The research review involved the following steps: (1) The research staff searched the professional literature…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Middle School Mathematics, Middle School Students
