Exploring Playgrounds, Grades 5-8 (CD): A Context for Multiplication of Fractions

by Catherine Twomey Fosnot, Catherine Twomey Fosnot

In Exploring Playgrounds, participants can interact with footage of seventh graders:

constructing big ideas related to multiplying fractions making connections to multiplication's commutative property uncovering the relationship between fractional parts and a changing whole System Requirements for CD-ROM

Windows/PC
Pentium II Processor
266MHz (or higher)
Windows 98 (or higher)
64 MB RAM (more recommended)
SVGA Color Display (or better)
4x CD-ROM Drive (or faster)
Sound Card
16-bit Flash(tm) Player and Acrobat Reader
Quicktime 6.0 (or higher)

MacIntosh
PowerPC Processor
G3/233MHz (or higher)
System 9.2 or 10.2 (or higher)
64 MB RAM (more recommended)
SVGA Color Display (or better)
4x CD-ROM Drive (or faster)
Sound Card
16-bit Flash(tm) Player and Acrobat Reader
Quicktime 6.0 (or higher)

Audio CD

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Cathy Fosnot is a leading voice in mathematics education. She is Professor Emerita of Education at the City College of New York and the founder of Mathematics in the City, a national center for professional development located at the college. In 2007 she established New Perspectives on Learning to devote her time to speaking around the world, fostering school change through professional learning and support, and producing new resources and materials.