1. Annotated Bibliography For this section of the assignment I have selected five article that focus on innovative ways of teaching students the concept of fractions. Anderson, C., Anderson, K., Wenzel, E. (2000). Oil and
Water don’t Mix, but they do Teach Fractions.
Teaching Children Mathematics, 7(3), 174-178.
Bryan, T. Curry, J., Wilkerson, T. (2012) An Appetite for Fractions: Using candy bars as models gives sixth-grade
students a taste for learning to represent fractions whose denominators are factors of twelve. Teaching Children Mathematics, 17 (2) 90-91.
Confry, J., Edgington, C., Myers, M., Wilson, P. (2012) Fair Shares, Matey, or Walk the Plank. Teaching Children
Mathematics. 18 (8) 482-489.
Ellington, A., Whitenack, J., (2010) Fractions and the Funky Cookie. Teaching Children Mathematics. 19 (9) 532-
539.
Empson, S., Levi, L., Carpenter, T. (2011) The Algebraic Nature of Fractions: Developing Relational Thinking in
Elementary School. Early Algebrization:Advances in Mathematics Education. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-
17735-4_22
Whitin, D., Whitin, P. (2012) Making Sense of Fractions and Percentages. Teaching Children Mathematics. 18 (8)
490- 496.
2. Article Reviews I have critically reviewed the following three NCTM articles on the topic of differentiation.
Barger, R. (2009) Gifted, talented and high achieving. Teaching Children Mathematics, 16 (3). 154-161.
Gavin, M., Moylan, K. (2012) 7 Steps to high-end learning. Teaching Children Mathematics. 19 (3). 184-192.
Ensign, J. (2012) Teacher initiated differentiation. Teaching Children Mathematics, 19 (3) 158-163.
3. Lesson Plans & Creative Projects To fufill the requirements of this aspect of the assignment I have developed a project based learning assignment (along with the first lesson plan), two additional lesson plans and two journals.
4. Manipulatives I have reviewed base 10 blocks, a balance scale, coloured pattern shapes, geometric blocks, interlocking math cubes and money.
5. Technology In this section you will find an interactive SmartBoard lesson, a podcast for parents and a couple of valuable mathematic websites for students.