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Reading: Audrey’s Acquisition Of Fractions

ThomasJPitts 14th February 2011

Reading: Audrey’s Acquisition Of Fractions

This reading discusses how an average student can benefit from a structured and ordered approach to the teaching of fractions. It could probably be applied to any mathematics topic. The approach taken was one of understanding the needs of the child first and having an in depth idea of where her weaknesses were. There was […]

ThomasJPitts 13th February 2011

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Fractions: A Small Research Project

Below are the general responses to the questions posed – I recap the questions and the views are generalised notes from talking to a range of teachers from nursery, through Key Stage 1 and 2. I provide the detailed breakdown of two colleagues from Years 3 and 4. Throughout these you can see that fractions is a […]

ThomasJPitts 12th February 2011

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Action Research, Study Block 3: Fractions

Break a Stick activity

I tried this with my current Year 6 group of 24 children to disappointing results. The children break the stick of 18 Multilink cubes, describe what they have done and put something on the sheet of paper that will show what their actions to the rest of the group. They were sat in two circles […]

That rarest of things, a full Cuisenaire Set!

ThomasJPitts 7th February 2011

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Action Research, Study Block 3: Fractions

Cuisenaire Rods Follow Up

Yesterday, I detailed how I was planning to use Cuisenaire Rods with half of my Year 6s to investigate and consolidate their knowledge of fractions. What I love about the photo above is that despite the general age of the sets we had in school, the rods looked like new… also, the lovely glimpse of […]

ThomasJPitts 6th February 2011

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Action Research, Study Block 3: Fractions

Working with Cuisenaire Rods

Tomorrow I intend to work with half of my Year 6 group, 12 children, on the included Cuisenaire Rods task from the handbook (an example of the type question we will look at is below). Georges Cuisenaire was teaching at his school in Thuin in Belgium when he invented these now famous rods as a […]