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

Part 6: Summarizing to support students’ understanding and use of representations shared by classmates

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Overview

Summarizing the mathematical work of the class is an important teaching practice. Providing summaries can help students make sense of and consolidate mathematical ideas. Skill in making connections is often essential in summarizing.

This part explores how teachers can summarize mathematical work to support students’ understanding and use of representations shared by classmates.

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  • Sessions
    • Session 1: Studying mathematics teaching with a focus on fractions
    • Session 2: Understanding and using representations of fractions
    • Session 3: Connecting representations and developing a working definition of a fraction
    • Session 4: Using the number line
    • Session 5: Narrating representations and analyzing tasks
    • Session 6: Using public recording space
    • Session 7: Studying how tasks and public recording space support mathematics teaching
    • Session 8: Supporting students' narrations; and using a 'public-recording-space checklist'
    • Session 9: Investigating strategies for comparing fractions
    • Session 10: Supporting students’ understanding and use of representations shared by classmates

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