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“Fractions are really small things.”

Today isn’t a sample of student work, exactly. It’s an interview with a kid.

 

Interview_for_how_students_learn

 

[Source: How Students Learn: Mathematics in the Classroom, p.314]

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3.NF.2 Fractions

How big is three-eighths?

In the student’s work below, what is “it” and why does the student think that matters?

Three-eighths

[Source: http://maine.edc.org/file.php/1/docs/LocatingFractions_StAssessSamples-OERMath.pdf ]