A couple of resources today to help you work with your child on fractions, decimals, and percents. ABCYa.com has a digital fraction tile set that is worth checking out. Simple enough to be intuitive yet flexible enough to be useful, this free resource includes tiles with the most common denominators students will encounter. What really sets ABCYa’s tiles apart is that they also include decimals and percents, providing students with a clear, tangible relationship between these three number sets. Winning.
For another option to explore fractions, check out the “Fractions” app by Math Learning Center, available online, for Apple devices, or for Chrome. Two big advantages of this app: you can customize the denominator to any number less than or equal to 100, and you can choose to show fractions as circles rather than rectangles, which I have found to be crucial in my many years of teaching middle school math.
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