Dykema also suggests that “student-to-student discourse” can prod understanding or “a-ha” moments during a fractions lesson. For more research-based strategies on teaching fractions ...

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.

This short animated film is from the BBC Teach series, Hyaptia's Mathematical Maze. Add fractions using bar models of the relative size. Explore subtraction as difference by giving an open-ended ...

It's not fair for you to give me such a big piece in return ... with numerators and denominators in fractions. This short animated film is from the BBC Teach series, Hypatia's Mathematical Maze.