A Hands-on Approach to Teaching Fractions and Decimals

For Middle School Teachers

Sponsored by

The Salem State Collaborative

Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008

Location: SEEM Collaborative Offices, 92 Montvale Ave. Suite 3500, Stoneham, MA. 02180 - See website for directions

Time: 8:30 AM –2:30 PM

PDP’s: 5 PDP’s

Cost: Collaborative Members: $35 Non-Collaborative Members: $125

Refreshments and lunch are included in fee.

This workshop is designed to assist teachers in using fraction bars, pattern blocks and number lines to teach all the areas of fractions. It will concentrate on the numerator and denominator, equals, greater than, less than, ordering, mixed numbers along with rounding, estimating as well as all aspects of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Base ten materials, and metric tapes will be used to deal with decimal representations of the common fraction.

We will be involved with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division along with rounding and changing common fractions to decimals. If time permits, division of whole numbers and ways of assessing this operation will be discussed.

Instructor: Jim Callahan, Mathematics Consultant

Registration Information:

Please register at our website www.salemcollaborative.org, or email the following information to Jim Kearns at registration@salemcollaborative.org. If you have registration questions, please either email (preferred) or

call Jim at 781-771-4860.

Make checks or Purchase Orders payable to CPMSIE and Bring to the First Session

DEADLINE to sign up for the Fractions and Decimals Workshop is five days prior to start of program.