This study also found that in all units, students on average experienced over 40% growth from the pre-assessment to the post-assessment. Academic growth is important because it demonstrates that learning has taken place. The sixth grade students averaged over 60% grow thin the inquiry- based unit, which shows a significant increase in student’s understanding of fractional operations. This growth could be due to the nature of inquiry-based learning and the way it encourages students to “discover or construct information” by themselves. In turn, this information is more meaningful to students and they are better able to retain it, which would support the theoretical framework of this study. The constructivist methods used in this study supported Dewey (1902) suggestions for more learner-centered and more meaningful approaches to learning in which “the child is the starting-point, the center, and the end” (p.13). It also corresponded with Dewey‘s ideas that “[Learning] involves reaching out of the mind” (p.13), which was a goal of the constructivist method used.