This journal article was about fractions in a fifth grade classroom. It talked a lot about math specialists and how they are working hard with teachers, students, and administrators about math curriculum. The teacher was teaching her students about how parts of a fraction are equal sizes using pattern blocks and multilink cubes. It is called the funky cookie activity because it uses all the shapes to represent a whole. The students would separate the multilinks into groups to see the relationship parts of a fraction to the whole part of an object. After doing this activity the students understood that all of the parts were equal. The specialists work very hard to cooperate with the teachers to give them the best activities for students to be particpating in.
I thought that this was a very interesting article about how teachers work with specialists. When reading I expected that there would be more information about the students and the activity. The article went into a lot of detail about the specialists and how they are creating different lessons and activities for teachers that they work with to give to students. It was interesting learning about this because when I am a teacher I would like to work with a math specialist in my classroom. I am not very strong in math and I think that having a specialist would really benefit me when I am teaching math. Overall, I thought that this was a very informative article and I learned a lot about how to teach fractions.
Ellington, A., & Whitenack, J. (2010). Fractions and the funky cookie. Teaching Children Mathematics. 16 (9), 532.
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