Noooooo! A unit of fractions in the GIFTED 5th gr!

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Re: Noooooo! A unit of fractions in the GIFTED 5th OHGrandma #65803 01/13/10 01:40 PM
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Grinity Member Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 7,207 Connecticut	Originally Posted by OHGrandma Originally Posted by Grinity i like dreaming... hahaha... sometimes I catch myself thinking, "but he's only at the 98-99 percentile on grade level tests(I ignore the above level test results in this line of thinking!), so he's only a '1 in 100', not the '1 in 10,000' gifted kind of kid." You just outlined the rational for above level test! Mine usually scores 'top 10% or top 5%' on grade level tests, but 67 percentile on 'above level tests' - it gets confusing. At some point you kind of have to forget about the age level tests as meaningless because they don't tell you what you really want to know. Whine away! Grinity Coaching available, at SchoolSuccessSolutions.com

Re: Noooooo! A unit of fractions in the GIFTED 5th Grinity #65845 01/13/10 08:45 PM
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Taminy Member T Joined: May 2009 Posts: 282	24 x 45 could be broken down into four steps, but doesn't have to be. Students who really "get" partial products quickly learn to break up just one of the two numbers: 24 x 40=960 24 x 5= 120 Grand total: 1,080 Once students are doing this naturally, the standard algorithm is easily "demystified" and can be more than a series of memorized steps.

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