One of the future teachers wrote that
since children were able to manipulate the
hands-on pieces to find the equivalent fractions,
they would be more likely to remember
the information about the fractions in the
future. Also future teachers spoke to children
about their experience. One future
teacher reported,
After the activity, I asked some of the
same girls I talked to at the beginning
of the night what they thought about the
night and what they learned. One student
said, “I liked doing fractions because
we got to color at the end and
make them pretty.” Another child who
had claimed to dislike math said,
“Fractions aren’t really math because
they are fun. I am good at fractions, but
not other math.”