Fly on the Math Teacher’s Wall: Squashing Fraction Misconceptions

I am once again working with a group of math bloggers to join forces in ‘squashing’ some math misconceptions.  For the inaugural blog hop we tackled the big idea of Place Value.  This time around we are taking on FRACTIONS.  Read through my thoughts and then at the bottom is a link to another blogger and their thoughts […]

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Building Number Sense and Fraction Sense While #TMWYK

So this week, two situations arose involving my son’s food and math.  One built on some big ideas around Number Sense and the other built on his early Fraction Sense, but both gave me an opportunity to be Talking Math With Your Kids #TMWYK.   Scene #1: Building Number Bonds that Make 10 and Equality We […]

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