NUMERACY FACILITATOR NEWSLETTER
Number Sense Term 2 Junior
GUIDES TO EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION
www.eworkshop.on.ca
FRACTIONS
http://www.eworkshop.on.ca/edu/resources/guides/N
SN_vol_5_Fractions.pdf Pages 11-23 are key pages to
increase your own content knowledge related to
fraction concepts in the junior grades, and to provide
instructional strategies that help students develop an
understanding of fractions. Teachers can facilitate this
understanding by helping students to:
• model fractions as parts of a whole;
• count fractional parts beyond one whole;
• relate fraction symbols to their meanings;
• relate fractions to division;
• establish part-whole relationships;
• relate fractions to the benchmarks of 0, 1/2, and 1;
• compare and order fractions;
• determine equivalent fractions.
DECIMALS
http://www.eworkshop.on.ca/edu/resources/guides/N
SN_vol_6_Decimal_Numbers.pdf Pages 11-23 *are key
A Summary of General Instructional Strategies this term:
Students in the junior grades benefit from:
• representing decimal numbers using a variety of
models, and explaining the relationship between the
decimal parts and the whole;
• discussing and demonstrating base ten relationships
in whole numbers and decimal numbers (e.g., 10 ones
make ten, 10 tenths make one, 10 hundredths make a
tenth);
• using models to relate fractions and decimal numbers
(e.g., using fraction strips to show that 2/10 = 0.2);
• comparing and ordering decimal numbers using
models, number lines, and reasoning strategies;
 Learning Activities from the Guides are referenced
and itemized in the LKDSB Numeracy Framework unit
plans.
FRACTIONS AND DECIMALS NUMERACY MODULES:
There are two Numeracy Modules on e-workshop for this
strand which include videos, graphics, links, three part
lessons and blackline templates worth checking out. They are
sub-titled Decimal Numbers , and Fractions .
Marian Small in Making Math Meaningful, 2009 p.195;
Fractions can represent parts of wholes, parts of sets,
parts of measures and division. A fraction is not as
meaningful without knowing what the whole is.
Renaming fractions is often the key to comparing
them
Number Sense Manipulatives
Linking cubes, colour tiles, geoboards, centicubes,
Cuisenaire rods, base ten materials, fraction circles,
decimal squares, money, place value mats, pattern
blocks, counters, fraction bars, number lines, playing
cards, tangrams.
WEBSITES:
 The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
http://nlvm.usu.edu/ has many virtual manipulatives for
fractions.
 CLIPS on Edugains http://oame.on.ca/CLIPS/ An
excellent video resource for Exploring Fractional
Part/Whole relationships for grades 4 to 6.
 QUESTIONING BIG IDEAS K-12; PROPORTIONAL
REASONING. This is a document filled with a continuum
of ideas and strategies throughout the grades.
http://www.edugains.ca/resources/LearningMaterials/
ContinuumConnection/BigIdeasQuestioning_Proportion
alReasoning.pdf
Marian Small posts her presentations on-line. Her
recent presentation on proportional reasoning is
available in English and French
http://www.onetwoinfinity.ca/presentations/EQAOPJ.p
df English
http://www.onetwoinfinity.ca/presentations/Proportio
nal%20Reasoning_Marian%20Small_Fr.pdf French
Create an animation to demonstrate the concept of
fractions and how fractions are written in mathematical
terms. Use FRAMES 4
http://creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/Uploads/pd
fs/Lessons/Clay_Fractions.pdf