Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding: Essential Content Knowledge and Instructional Strategies for Teachers

ISBN-13: 9780367441678 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 280 str.

Susan J. Lamon

Opis

The fourth edition of this groundbreaking text helps pre-service and in-service mathematics teachers build the comfort and confidence they need to begin talking to children about fractions and ratios, distilling complex ideas and translating research into usable ideas for the classroom.

Spis treści

1. Proportional Reasoning: An Overview 2. Fractions and Rational Numbers 3. Relative Thinking and Measurement 4. Quantities and Covariation 5. Proportional Reasoning 6. Reasoning with Fractions 7. Fractions as Part–Whole Comparisons 8. Fractions as Quotients 9. Fractions as Operators 10. Fractions as Measures 11. Ratios and Rates 12. Changing Instruction

O autorze

Susan J. Lamon is Professor Emerita of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at Marquette University.