Jul 4
Teaching Fractions to Older Students Who Missed the Basics
If you’ve ever taught middle school students who can recite “numerator” and “denominator” but can’t explain why 1/2 is larger than 1/4, you’re not alone. After nearly twenty years teaching in a middle school self-contained special education classroom, I’ve learned that many older students don’t struggle with fractions because they “aren’t math kids.” They struggle because somewhere along the…