How does the text recommend preparing students for comparing fractions with a numerator of one in the early grades?
What will be an ideal response?
The teacher can prepare students for comparing fractions with a numerator of one in the early grades by providing pictorial demonstrations illustrating that the more parts a unit is divided into, the smaller the size of each part. The teacher would teach the students this rule: The bigger the denominator, the smaller the value of each part.
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a. Responsibility for intervention shifted from the medical community to the education community. b. Many children with EBD were institutionalized as that was thought to be the only "cure." c. Most children with EBD were thought to be insane and/or mentally impaired. d. There was little if any attention paid to most disabilities including EBD.
The most common descriptive statistic used in causal-comparative research as a measure of central tendency is the
a. range. b. mode. c. mean. d. median.
Subtle favoritism or discrimination on the basis of gender is called _______
A. racism B. gender bias C. male bashing D. oppression
Which of the following is an example of practitioner-based research?
a. Research conducted in a laboratory by scientists seeking to cure a disease b. Research conducted by a professor investigating demographic voting patterns c. Research conducted by a teacher reflecting on his or her own practice d. Research conducted by a psychologist interested in gauging student attitudes toward school