Using Recipes and Ratio Tables to Build on Students' Understanding of Fractions.

Brinker, Laura

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ERIC Number: EJ584578

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Publication Date: 1998

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Using Recipes and Ratio Tables to Build on Students' Understanding of Fractions.

Brinker, Laura

Teaching Children Mathematics, v5 n4 p218-24 Dec 1998

Presents a unit for fourth and fifth grades on fractions and mixed numbers in which students have to decrease and increase the number of servings of different recipes. Describes students' strategies for multiplying fractions, and discusses how the use of a ratio table facilitated their thinking. (ASK)

Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Fractions, Grade 4, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Number Concepts, Ratios (Mathematics), Recipes (Food), Relevance (Education)

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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