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Extending Children's Mathematics: Fractions & Decimals: Innovations in Cognitively Guided Instruction

Extending Children's Mathematics: Fractions & Decimals: Innovations in Cognitively Guided Instruction

Empson, Susan B.
Levi, Linda
Carpenter, Thomas P.

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ISBN10: 0325030537
ISBN13: 9780325030531
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Published: Mar 29 2011
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.50 Width: 7.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

With the collaboration of a number of dedicated teachers and their students, Susan Empson and Linda Levi have produced a volume that is faithful to the basic principles of CGI while at the same time covering new ground with insight and innovation.

--Thomas P. Carpenter

This highly anticipated follow-up volume to the landmark Children's Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction addresses the urgent need to help teachers understand and teach fraction concepts. Fractions remain one of the key stumbling blocks in math education, and here Empson and Levi lay a foundation for understanding fractions and decimals in ways that build conceptual learning. They show how the same kinds of intuitive knowledge and sense making that provides the basis for children's learning of whole number arithmetic can be extended to fractions and decimals. Just as they did in Children's Mathematics and Thinking Mathematically, Empson and Levi provide important insights into children's thinking and alternative approaches to solving problems. Three themes appear throughout the book:

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