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Building Bridges from Concrete to Abstract Part 3: Addition & Subtraction of Fractions
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST
Presented by Dr. Sara Delano Moore, educational consultant at SDM Learning
Sponsored by ETA hand2mind
If you attended the live session, you’ll be emailed a CE certificate within 24 hours of the webinar. If you view the recording and would like a CE certificate, join the Building Understanding in Mathematics community and go to the Webinar Archives folder to take the CE quiz.
Teaching well with manipulatives means helping learners connect concrete representations with more abstract ways of presenting mathematics. This four-part series of webinars examines strategies for transitioning from manipulative-based mathematics to using abstract representations such as algorithms.
In this third webinar of the series, Dr. Sara Delano Moore shared strategies for helping students understand critical concepts such as common denominators and see connections between manipulative models and the algorithms we use to add and subtract fractions. Explore how to help students see connections from the concrete to the abstract as they add and subtract fractions.
Dr. Sara Delano Moore is an educational consultant at SDM Learning. Sara focuses on helping teachers and students understand mathematics as a coherent and connected discipline. An experienced teacher and nationally recognized speaker, her work emphasizes the power of deep understanding and multiple representations for learning. Sara’s interests include building conceptual understanding of mathematics to support procedural fluency and applications, incorporating engaging literature into mathematics & science instruction, and connecting mathematics to engineering design in meaningful ways. Learn more about her education and experience at sdmlearning.com. Follow her on Twitter @saradelanomoore.
ETA hand2mind believes that educating students is the most important job in the world. Our story is all about the Educators, Teachers, Parents and Partners who share our goal of helping children learn and succeed. We believe real success in the classroom happens when students learn by doing. We are excited to welcome you on this professional journey and hope that together we can innovate, initiate & invigorate teaching conversations around the country.
