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You will learn how to avoid teaching the subject in isolation as you approach fractions, decimals and percentages as three interconnected topics. This will help to give your students context and give them a deeper understanding of the maths structure behind fractions.
Syllabus
Week 1: What is a fraction?
Week 2: Expressing fractions as decimals and as percentages
Week 3: Multiplying fractions, decimals and percentages
Week 4: Adding and subtracting fractions, decimals and percentages
Week 5: Dividing with decimals and fractions
Week 6: Delving deeper into percentages
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Identify why students find the concept of fractions demanding.
- Develop strategies to enable students to demonstrate their understanding, and use, of fractions.
- Explore the links between fractions, decimals and percentages and become fluent in their application in differing contexts.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the mathematical structure and not just teach the ‘tricks’.
Solve mathematical problems in context.
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for teachers and educators who don’t have a specialism in maths but wish to learn mathematical methods and improve their understanding.
This includes:
-new teachers, student teachers or people just about to start their teaching career who are interested in increasing their mathematical subject knowledge
- inexperienced teachers of mathematics for whom mathematics was not a major part of their degree
- non-specialist teachers of mathematics whose expertise lies elsewhere.
- teachers of science
- teachers of technology, engineering, and other related subjects
- parents wishing to support their children.