Patterns in Arithmetic: Fractions: Booklet 1 Student Workbook - Basic Concepts

by Susan Carpenter Alysia Krafel

Designed for seven to nine-year-old students (third grade). This booklet works with concrete models to teach what a fraction is, how to read and write fractional notation, and begins equivalent fractions, all using a student made booklet. Great for homeschool. Companion to Booklet 1 Parent/Teacher Guide ISBN 9781935559252. Discover the joys of learning mathematics. Students and adults become empowered by building models using Prism Fractions (free paper set included), and pattern blocks to prove their own ideas. Adults, along with their students, explore how fractions work in the real world. Lessons come with worksheets, games, and other hands-on activities. Students learn to think as mathematicians think. The unique teaching method encourages students to find and use patterns, make generalizations, and understand number concepts by building models with manipulatives to create models of arithmetic procedures. Then they record their discoveries in ways that make sense to them. They learn arithmetic by doing mathematics. This teaching method builds confidence in students’ thinking ability. These time proven methods were developed at the world renowned University of California, Irvine Farm Elementary School and then refined and field-tested for twenty years at Chrysalis Charter School in Redding, California. Students become accomplished mathematicians not by drilling it into them, but by giving them time to discover their own procedures for doing arithmetic operations. Most important this series assists parents/teachers in learning how to teach so that the student does the discovering. An approach to this type of math instruction requires parents to ask appropriate questions when students are stuck and guide them to find their own solutions. The need for the parent/teacher to understand this teaching technique is stressed by the authors.

69 pages, Staple Bound

Published January 1, 2014