Pathway to Math Proficiency : Mastering Equivalent Fractions, Decimals and Percents...with Ease

Pathway to Math Proficiency: Mastering Equivalent Fractions, Decimals and Percents with Ease From Susan Mercer, author of Pathway to Pre-Algebra Proficiency: 30 Puzzles and Mini-lessons Designed with the Pre-teen in Mind, comes Pathway to Math Proficiency: Mastering Equivalent Fractions, Decimals and Percents with Ease. In Pathway to Math Proficiency, Mercer, a veteran educator and textbook author, presents a series of fun math activities designed to help elementary and middle school students visualize and build a conceptual understanding of the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages. Pathways to Math Proficiency is unique in its teaching approach, in that the lessons place these concepts in a context in which students can relate numbers to their visual and verbal representations. For example, when students are presented with the fraction 4/5, they are able to think of this proportion as it relates to other math concepts four out of five, eight tenths, 0.8 and 80 percent, for instance. A valuable resource for educators, Pathway to Math Proficiency includes 30 fun learning activities.