Fraction Model
Which standard?
What mathematical content is being learned (or intended to be learned)?
Is the focus on instrumental or relational understanding?
What role does technology play?
The role of technology in this model is to represent knowledge and thinking. It is allowing students to see what they are thinking of as fractions, decimals, or percents. It is a visual tool that demonstrates the relationship between the three types of numbers.
What instructional function(s) does the resource serve?
What kinds of representations of the mathematics are used?
- Understand Numbers
What mathematical content is being learned (or intended to be learned)?
- Fractions
- Decimals
- Percents
Is the focus on instrumental or relational understanding?
- relational understanding (understanding the meaning of mathematical words and symbols; connections among ideas)
What role does technology play?
The role of technology in this model is to represent knowledge and thinking. It is allowing students to see what they are thinking of as fractions, decimals, or percents. It is a visual tool that demonstrates the relationship between the three types of numbers.
What instructional function(s) does the resource serve?
- practice (i.e., practicing skills or knowledge already learned)
- learning through exploration (i.e., provides context in which students can see new relationships; come to new understandings)
What kinds of representations of the mathematics are used?
- symbolic (i.e., numerals, symbols)
- graphical (i.e., standard graphical notation such as Cartesian (X-Y) coordinate system, bar graph, pie chart)
- visual/spatial (e.g., circles or squares with lines to show fractions)
- concrete or real-world objects (e.g., images of base-10 blocks, puppies, or jars)