Ep 46: Fractions for Young Learners

How young can young learners begin to experience fractions? Younger than you think! In this episode Pam and Kim describe simple ways we can help young students begin to develop fractional understanding. Pay attention to how natural it can be for young learners to learn math!
Talking Points

• Struggles that young learners may experience with "half"
• Simple classroom activities to have students fair shares in early grades as they practice counting
• Experiences and conversations in halving even and odd amounts
• Standards and fractions of an object vs fraction of a set
• Important unit fractions and resources
• Doubling and halving simultaneously
• Simple experiences parents can use to help their kids develop fractional understanding 

Additional sources:

• Beads, Shoes and Making Twos
• Games for Early Number Sense