Exploring Parks and Playgrounds: Multiplication and Division of Fractions

by Lynn D. Tarlow and Catherine Twomey Fosnot

Exploring Parks and Playgrounds: Multiplication and Division of Fractions is one of five units in the Contexts for Learning Mathematics Investigating Fractions, Decimals, and Percents (46) The focus of this unit is the development of students understanding of multiplication with rational numbers. The context of parks and playgrounds is used to introduce the double number line and the array models as helpful tools. Initially students...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325010285
• ISBN13: 9780325010281
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 10.6"
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 6