Utilization of Virtual Manipulatives in Teaching Fractions: Inputs For Development of Self Instructional Materials
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51699/ajdes.v1i.21Keywords:
Mathematics, elementary, fractions, problems, integers, decimalsAbstract
Fraction is one of the basic but poorly understood concepts in Mathematics in elementary school curriculum.In 12 years of teaching, I always noticed that the students tend to avoid questions or problems with fractions. In my certain topic, I always integrate my examples and given to integers, decimals, and fractions. But only in fractions they are having difficulties, specifically, addition and subtraction of fractions. It maybe because of some rules to follow and there are some pre- requisite topics prior to the lesson. Since there are fixed list of targets of lessons to be discussed by the teachers and competencies to be acquired by the students in a school year, the teachers tend to follow and finish the designed curriculum in the allotted time, compromising the quality of learners they are producing
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