Many students and teachers approach fractions with a mix of rules, tricks, and memorised steps. This two-day workshop begins by grounding participants in the developmental progression of how students come to understand fractions. From there, we will examine the shortcuts we often teach and uncover how to move from tricks to true reasoning. Throughout the workshop, we will emphasise the importance of building a deep conceptual understanding that supports flexible thinking, not just for one lesson or one grade, but across the entire learning journey.
Participants will engage in rich tasks, explore student thinking, and leave with practical strategies that promote lasting understanding, fluency, and scalable thinking that grows with students year after year.
Participants will walk away with:
A clearer understanding of how students develop fraction concepts from early ideas to more complex operations
A progression-based lens for planning instruction that connects learning across grade levels
Greater awareness of common tricks and shortcuts students use and why these can hinder understanding
Confidence in explaining why fraction procedures work using models and clear reasoning
Practical tools and visual models like number lines and area models to support student understanding
Rich tasks that promote problem solving and reasoning while building fluency
Strategies for making student thinking visible and using it to guide instruction
Ideas for redesigning lessons to move from tricks to conceptual understanding
Connections between conceptual understanding and procedural fluency that support long-term learning
A renewed sense of clarity and purpose in teaching fractions in a way that lasts
Registration
Early Bird €750.00 (ends 12 December 2025)
Standard Rate €800.00 (ends 02 February 2026)
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Featured speaker
Graham Fletcher
Graham Fletcher has served in education as a classroom teacher, math instructional lead, and currently as a math specialist. He is continually seeking new and innovative ways to support students and teachers in their development of conceptual understanding in elementary mathematics. He is the co-author of Building Fact Fluency and openly shares many of his resources at gfletchy.com.
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