Diane continued to use diagrams through
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out the year to examine various concepts with
her students. In her grade-level meetings, dis
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cussions focused on the concepts of multipli
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cation, division, fractions, their properties, con
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nections, and what understandings students can
develop from different approaches to these con
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cepts. The teachers were especially interested in
looking at the area model for multiplication on
graph paper and considered how this mode