Young Mathematicians at Work: Constructing Fractions, Decimals, and Percents

by Catherine Twomey Fosnot and Maarten Dolk

Book Overview

In our efforts to reform mathematics education, we've learned a tremendous amount about young students' strategies and the ways they construct knowledge, without fully understanding how to support such development over time. The Dutch do. So, funded by the National Science Foundation and ExxonMobil, Mathematics in the City was begun, a collaborative inservice project that pooled the best thinking from both countries. In Young Mathematicians at Work...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325003556
• ISBN13: 9780325003559
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

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Young Mathematicians At Work

Constructing Fractions, Decimals, and Percents by Fosnot and Dolk is a wonderful book for teachers who are trying to teach fractions and their relationship to decimals and percents. A very hands-on approach that really had me thinking about math differently. The first problem was dividing three subs for 4 children, 3 subs for 5 children, 4 subs for 5 children, and 7 subs for 8 children. Try it with your class and you will definately want to buy this book.Young Mathematicians at Work: Constructing Fractions, Decimals, and Percents