Reply To: Teaching Spatial Fractions

Thank you so much for your response, you provided some insights that I hadn’t thought of. Presenting the fraction twice was something I hadn’t considered, but the second spatial presentation with the labels would still require some braille ninja skills. Making the connection from the component to the label is definitely the part that I’m having the most difficulty with. I just don’t want to make it harder for the reader to understand what’s going on. Here’s my attempt at a couple of displayed fractions with labels. I did this before receiving your response, but I was also considering using some tactile lead lines. Do you think lead lines would be necessary for this particular example? Also, is it ok to use a few different solutions within the same book? More specifically, in this example if I do retain the spatial layout and maybe include some tactile lead lines, would it confuse the reader if an example later in the book is done differently? I’m including another example from later on in the book that has a few more labels. Do you think both of these examples need to be done the same?

Thanks again for the help.