Promoting Decimal Number Sense and Representational Fluency

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  • Jennifer M. Suh
  • Chris Johnston
  • Michelle Mills
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tThe abstract nature of mathematics requires the communication of mathematical ideas through multiple representations, such as words, symbols, pictures, objects, or actions. Building representational fluency involves using mathematical representations flexibly and being able to interpret and translate among these different models and mathematical concepts. This article shares a collaborative lesson study experience in planning and teaching a unit on decimals. Participants included fifthand sixth-grade teachers and lesson study facilitators, including a university mathematics educator, a doctoral student, and a school mathematics specialist. The lesson was taught in a fifth-grade class with a high population of English language learners (ELL) and special needs students. The overarching goal of the lesson study was to develop students’ representational fluency Promoting Decimal Number Sense and Representational Fluency

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تاریخ انتشار 2008