Putting Fractions Together (PFT): Improving Children's Understanding of Fractions and Fraction Arithmetic
Intervention Details
Subject
MathAcademic Program
General EducationDuration
20.5 min (Part 1 of the intervention), 19.0 min (Part 2 of the individual-fractions-and-sums condition), 17.6 min (Part 2 of the individual-fractions condition)Grades
4, 5, 6Personnel
Other
Intervention Summary
Putting Fractions Together (PFT)
Grades
4, 5, 6Personnel
OtherStatistical Finding Summary
Positive effect on children's understanding of individual fractions
Positive effect on children's understanding of fraction addition with equal denominators
Positive effect on children's understanding of fraction addition with unequal denominators
Greater improvement in understanding of fraction addition with unequal denominators for children who received the individual-fractions-and-sums intervention compared to those who received the individual-fractions intervention
Positive effect on children's ability to compare fraction sums to one
Positive effect on children's use of estimation strategies for comparing fraction sums to one
Greater improvement in children's ability to estimate unequal-denominator fraction sums for those who received the fraction-sums intervention compared to those who received the whole-number-sums intervention
Source
S. Siegler, R. & W. Braithwaite, D. (2021). Putting Fractions Together (ED612394). ERIC. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED612394.pdf.
Data Sample by Population
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