Session 9 Planner: Investigating strategies for comparing fractions

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Module content overview: Scope of this session

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

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