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Lessons for Multiplying and Dividing Fractions: Grades 5-6

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In this book, Marilyn Burns tackles the topic of how to teach students to multiply and divide fractions-and understand what they are doing. Students build conceptual understanding as they develop proficiency. Teachers using these activities have reported that for the first time, they themselves understand the underlying rationale, and how to teach it, for how we multiply and divide fractions and mixed numbers…. More >>

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Going Beyond the Theory/Practice Divide in Early Childhood Education: Introducing an Intra-Active Pedagogy

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Going Beyond the Theory/Practice Divide in Early Childhood Education focuses on the use of pedagogical documentation as a tool for learning and transformation. Based on innovative research, the author presents new approaches to learning in early childhood education, shifting attention to the force and impact which material objects and artefacts can have in learning. Drawing upon the theories of feminist Karen Barad and philosophers Gille Deleuze and Félix Guattari,… More >>

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Teaching About Place: Learning From The Land

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 The sixteen essays in this anthology describe the practice of teaching about place, with the goal of inspiring educators as well as other readers to discover the value of close investigation of their own places. The contributors discuss places from the desert river canyons of the American West, to the bayous of Texas, to wildlife refuges on the Atlantic Coast, to New England’s forests and river, and back to the wildland-urban interface in suburban Southern Calif… More >>

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