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Beyond Pizzas & Pies is all about building a foundational understanding of fractions This book helps teachers and students understand fractions as numbers, including the use of equivalency and thinking about benchmark numbers, so that when students start to compute with fractions (see the companion volume, Beyond Invert & Multiply), they have a solid foundation. You'll find: Classroom Scenarios that address common challenges students (and teachers!) encounter as they acquire an understanding of fractions What's the Math? sections intended to clarify the mathematics What's the Research? insights that show why ""that's the way we've always done things"" might not be the most successful approach Classroom Activities with friendly, step-by-step instructions and video clips demonstrating how to teach the concepts Reproducibles that are available in a downloadable format Study Questions at the end of each chapter that encourage readers to set concrete goals for implementing what they've read This resource features 30 streaming video clips filmed in actual classrooms so you can see this work in action.

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Julie McNamara is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at California State University, East Bay, in Hayward, California. She also provides professional development and classroom coaching to teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before receiving a PhD in mathematics education from the University of California, Berkeley, she was a classroom teacher in local public schools. Meghan M. Shaughnessy is an elementary teacher educator and researcher at the University of Michigan School of Education. She designs and enacts practice-based teacher education courses focused on elementary mathematics. Her research focuses on the study and improvement of elementary mathematics instruction. Meghan received a PhD in mathematics education from the University of California, Berkeley.

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