Middlebury Community Schools - Fraction Island Curriculum

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	Synopsis of the Fraction Islands Curriculum
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Fraction Islands is a tool teachers are using in the classroom to help students make the abstract concept of fractional notation concrete. Fraction Islands moves students from the concrete to the pictoral to the abstract notation, following the same philosophy as Hands-On Equations. By using geoboards and foam pieces to represent fractions, students are using an area model to understand fractions. This manipulative can be used by students to discover the different rules for adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions. Fraction Islands are used at the elementary level beginning in the first grade.