Computation of Fractions: Math Intervention for Elementary and Middle Grades Students - Softcover

Drawing on their years of classroom experience working with struggling students and their teachers, Dr. Brad Witzel and Dr. Paul Riccomini present elementary and middle school teachers with practical strategies and activities for promoting academic success and mastery of key mathematical concepts. They offer insight into what really helps students learn math including friendly descriptions of the concrete to representational to abstract sequence of instruction, procedural instruction that can be expanded from one topic to the next, assessment guides for placement and measurement, and retention of content through mixed reviews and assessments. In addition, the authors provide teachers with clear direction to implement each research-based lesson plan with answer sheets to grade student work as well as pictures of manipulations and accompanying vocabulary so that teachers know exactly how to show concrete and pictorial steps. Give your students who struggle with fractions the support they need! Aligns each lesson to the CRA instruction sequence and effectively leads teachers through classroom instruction. Offers step-by-step direction to coach teachers through each lesson plan. Includes a complete list of manipulative resources for each lesson.

Bradley S. Witzel and Paul J. Riccomini

Computation and Fractions: Math Intervention for Elementary and Middle Grade Students

 

What really helps students learn math?

 

Inthis clear, insightful, and practical guide, Dr. Brad Witzel and Dr. Paul Riccomini present elementary and middle school teachers with functional strategies and activities for promoting academic success and aiding their students’ mastery of key mathematical concepts such as fractions. Teachers will gain confidence and insight into how they can help their struggling math students as Witzel and Riccomini coach them through lesson plans that move from concrete to representational to abstract concepts in math and provide them with assessment guides for placement and measurement and reviews that bolster students' content retention.

 

Drawing from a combination of their years of classroom experience and their extensive research and study, the authors provide in-service and pre-service teachers with step-by-step directions on how to implement each lesson plan effectively in their own classroom.

 

Dr. Bradley Witzel is an assistant professor of special education at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He has experience in the classroom as a teacher of students with both high and low incidence disabilities. Witzel has given numerous professional presentations and published research and practitioner articles concerning algebra education and math education for students with and without learning disabilities.

 

Dr. Paul J. Riccomini is an associate professor of special education at Clemson University and a former high school math and special education teacher. He runs numerous professional development workshops focused on improving mathematics education through the application of evidenced-based practices. Riccomini is the author of several research and practitioner articles concerning effective math instruction strategies.