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On this page, you will find several free fractions worksheets including modeling fractions, reducing fractions, adding fractions, subtracting fractions, multiplying fractions, and dividing fractions. The free fractions worksheets on this page can be used as assessment tools, mental math practice, algorithm study/practice and any other purpose that you see fit. Each free fractions worksheet comes complete with an answer key which can be used for self-correcting or marking. You can download the old fraction worksheets in one zip file.

"This model for learning mathematics may be quite different from what teachers experienced themselves in the past where classrooms were less interactive, filled with little activity and conversation. Teachers were generally in control, directing all aspects of what was to be learned; different points of view and approaches seldom brought to the surface new ideas and insights and a high degree of redundancy meant that everybody learned the exact same thing at the exact same time.

In brief, it contrasts the modern understanding of causality (and the mathematics this presupposes) with the more recent, perhaps in a sense "postmodern" understanding of causality (again with a concomitant mathematical model) and on the basis of this distinction, draws some interesting parallels between economics and natural events.

"This is a rather unusual structure for organizing mathematical content, but offers an exciting opportunity for teachers across the nation and abroad to exchange ideas and discuss what they teach. This Wiki will address the underlying central concepts and propose activities that also provide rich opportunity to engage students in the Mathematical Practices. "