Friday, October 31, 2014: 8:00 AM-9:15 AM
105/106 (Indiana Convention Center)
Lead Speaker:
Bob M. Drake
A major obstacle in teaching fraction operations meaningfully is finding a concrete model that easily represents those operations. Geoboards and Unifix Cubes provide a perfect model for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to develop an understanding of both the meaning of the fractions, and operations on them.
Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, 6 to 8