07 – (Full Day) Reimagining Fractions (Numeracy) with Susan Robinson BCAMT 10:30am-3pm

  Time: 10:30am – 3:00pm    Grades 3-9

Presenter: Sue Robinson (BC Assoc. of Mathematics Teachers)
Location: G.P. Vanier   
Limit:  50 in-person
Contact: Amanda Wheeler 

Reimaging Fractions: Core concepts to support conceptual understanding of fractions (grades 3-8)

Join Susan Robinson from the BC Association of Mathematics Teachers for an exploration of a progression of fraction concepts that support flexible thinking about fractions.

This session will engage teachers in hands-on activities and visual provocations that uncover student thinking and common misconceptions. We will look at multiple representations of fractions and teacher moves that encourage students to justify their reasoning and strategize their approaches to comparing and ordering fractions, equivalent fractions and operations on fractions.

Susan Robinson has spent her career teaching on islands in the Pacific Ocean and has taught in the Gulf Islands for almost two decades. She loves being surrounded by the energy and chaos of teenagers as she helps them navigate the tension between confusion and understanding and has recently begun to share the joy of mathematics with younger students.

Susan is the past-president of the BCAMT and a co-editor of the mathematics journal Vector.