Tips for Helping at Home • Questions to ask:What is it that you don’t understand (havethe student be specific)?What about putting things in order? You can help your child byencouraging him/her to come up with unusualdivisions and to convince you that the squaresare really divided in half (or quarters, eighths,etc.) • Watch for situations at home where similar thinking is relevant—for example, how can we split thedriveway in equal amounts for shoveling snow;what are some different ways we can put cheeseon half of a pizza? When working with eighths, students will likely firstcome up with a picture like Kim’s, then begin to modify into something like ...
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