Volume 2, Edition 16 – Teaching Fractions & Percentages

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for teaching fractions and percentages.

Fractions and percentages are often taught together, but can still be difficult concepts for students to grasp. In an article for Teaching Children Mathematics, a pair of Wayne State University instructors discuss methods for teaching fractions and percentages in a way that maximizes student mastery of both ideas.

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