Fractions

Session 10 Planner: Supporting students’ understanding and use of representations shared by classmates

The highlighted goals are focal in this session; others goals will be focal in other sessions.

Mathematics	Student thinking
representing fractions defining fractions using and explaining methods and representations for comparing fractions understanding how equivalence (of fractions) can be represented and used	identifying and analyzing student conceptions, explanations, and representations of fractions identifying and analyzing student strategies for comparing fraction
Teaching practice	Learning from practice
selecting and generating representations connecting representations narrating the process of representing supporting students in narrating the use of a representation recording contributions and emerging mathematical ideas	studying public recording space to learn from practice using a conceptual framework to guide the planning, use, and analysis of public recording space

Note: The Transcript: One-eighth of 24 circles is used in Parts 3, 4, 5, and 6. It is available in the resources section of each of these parts.