Presenters: Susan Robinson
Facilitator: Serina Allison
Time: 11:00 am – 3:30 (with lunch break included)
Grades: 3-8
Max # participants: 50 in-person
Location: Aspen Elementary – Math Prep Centre
(please bring a packed lunch)
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.
This session will support ways for students to find strategies and ways of expressing fractions that works best for them. Starting with concrete representations-to pictorial and then into abstract. Providing these opportunities for our learners to be exposed to multiple ways of seeing fractions and their relationships with each other will help them with their confidence in math and see themselves as mathematicians and numerate people within our society.
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.
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February 18, 2025
11:00 am - 3:30 pm