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Direct linkCramer, Kathleen; Monson, Debra; Whitney, Stephanie; Leavitt, Seth; Wyberg, Terry – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2010
Fraction division is generally introduced in sixth or seventh grade with this rule: "Invert and multiply." The authors examined current commercial curricula and found that few textbooks use context as a way to build meaning for the division of fractions. When context is used, the connection between the invert-and-multiply rule and the context is…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Secondary School Mathematics, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction
