Evaluating Quantitative Reasoning Strategies for Comparing Fractions: A Tool for Teachers

Lindy Crawford; Sarah Quebec Fuentes; Jacqueline Huscroft-D’Angelo; Kristina N. Higgins

doi:10.1177/1053451218782443

Evaluating Quantitative Reasoning Strategies for Comparing Fractions: A Tool for Teachers

Lindy Crawford, Sarah Quebec Fuentes, Jacqueline Huscroft-D’Angelo, Kristina N. Higgins

Special Education and Communication Disorders

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Meaningful inclusion of quantitative reasoning into mathematics instruction requires meaningful ways to evaluate it. Few formative assessments exist to evaluate the strategies students use when reasoning mathematically. The Framework for Evaluating Quantitative Reasoning Strategies presented in this article provides teachers with categories for evaluating types of quantitative reasoning strategies students use for problems in the mathematical domain of number and operations. Numerous examples of the types of strategies students use for comparing fractions and how to evaluate the complexity of these strategies are provided. Included are research-based instructional recommendations for moving students toward a deeper conceptual understanding of fractions as numbers.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	225-234
Number of pages	10
Journal	Intervention in School and Clinic
Volume	54
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1053451218782443
State	Published - Mar 1 2019

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assessment
instruction
intervention
mathematics

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Developmental and Educational Psychology
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