3 Ways to Help Students Make Sense of Fractions

3 Ways to Help Students Make Sense of Fractions By Mona Iehl Fractions are divisive. You either love them or hate them, but people rarely feel like they truly understand them. My husband and I were renovating our house when he said, “We need a board that’s 48 ⅔ feet, and we’ll need to screw it every 1 ¼ feet.” My brain immediately fizzled. But then I grabbed a tape measure, and suddenly… it started to make sense. And I paused. Because that moment felt exactly like what many of our students...