Volume 1, Issue 7 – Comparing Fractions with Reasoning Skills
Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing the concept of comparing fractions with reasoning skills.
Comparing fractions, especially those with unlike denominators, can be extremely tricky for elementary school students. In an article for Teaching Children Mathematics, University of Central Florida instructor Wendy Bray and third-grade teacher Laura Abreu-Sanchez discuss a method of teaching students to compare fractions by using number sense and reasoning skills to consider why a given comparison may or may not be correct.
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