The educators at We Are Teachers came up with the idea of using pool noodles as an easy, inexpensive learning tool to help students visualize fractions, which is often a challenge for many kids.

The educators at We Are Teachers came up with the idea of using pool noodles as an easy, inexpensive learning tool to help students visualize fractions, which is often a challenge for many kids.

Leave it a group of teachers to find a way to make fractions fun. The educators at We Are Teachers came up with the idea of using pool noodles as an easy, inexpensive learning tool to help ...

The jump from learning about fractions to adding and then multiplying them happens fast. At every stage, students need to understand the operation conceptually and pair that with learning how to ...

But fractions are also notoriously hard to teach. In the early grades, students may come in with an innate sense of fractions because they’ve learned to split a candy bar into halves or fourths.

Research shows that students, and sometimes teachers, have trouble with fractions, especially conceiving of fractions as numbers that extend the whole number system. This paper explores how fractions ...

AbstractThis research analyzed how fractions are taught in the fourth grade of elementary school in Flanders. Analysis centered on the presence of five features of instruction recommended by research ...

“Who doesn’t like video games?” she beams. Just as well, for even as she pits her genius against the so-called “playstation”, she is actually learning about complex arithmetic fractions.