Fractions Foundations – FREE Online Course for K-8 Math Educators

Fractions Foundations is an eight-week online course* that will help you teach fractions concepts and skills more effectively through understanding student thinking and by supporting you to implement research-based instructional strategies in your classroom. It will help you address both the content andpractice standards as written in the Michigan K-12 Mathematics Standards (CCSS-M). Though this MOOC focuses on fraction instruction in grades 3-5, the concepts are applicable for other K-8 teachers and will help you address the needs of students whose learning differences impact mastery in mathematics. 

*The Fractions Foundations MOOC-Ed is offered through North Carolina State College of Education.

 If you are interested in receiving 30 SCECHs, please read the information below. Because we are offering thiscourse in conjunction with NCSCE, in order to receive SCECHs, participants will need to do the following:

1.    Email Becki Harding hardinr@resa.net by Jan. 29, 2016 expressing your interest in the SCECHs. Becki will email the interested participants all of the required paperwork in February. Note: You only need to do this if you want SCECHs. Participants that are not interested in SCECHs can go directly to the site and register.

2.    Submit thefollowing at the end of the course: Copy of the Certificate of Completion (issued by MOOC-Ed facilitators), completed work log, copy of the lesson developed for the online course, and completed SCECH form. All work must besubmitted to RESA by April 22, 2016 for SCECHs.

 Watch this short video to learn more about the course – https://youtu.be/6RZCczH-TOo

 Course starts Feb. 1, 2016 (Course orientation will open up Jan. 25, 2016)

Register here – https://place.fi.ncsu.edu/login/index.php. Click on “Create New Account” and complete the required fields. Then, navigate to the MOOC-Ed category of courses to locate Fraction Foundations course.