Sunday, May 29, 2011

Excellent resource for developing fractions

I'm trying to organize some of my "stuff" in the room where I do my math mentoring with gifted students. Today's project is to put all the activities involving geoboards in one (it may turn out to be more than one!) binder, so when a student really LOVES geoboards and wants to go further, and further, I'll be ready.

Among the resources I have is one module called "Geometry with fractions" from the document "Seeing Fractions" available as a complete download from the government's ERIC site. Here's the link:

http://www.eric.ed.gov:80/PDFS/ED348211.pdf

It is excellent! Activities for geoboards, fraction pieces, etc., black line masters for recording results of investigations. This would be good for gifted students in the primary grades, for all students in intermediate grades. Take a look!