How Many Wholes

About the Book

This isn’t just ANY book! How Many Wholes is an engaging tool to teach fractions. Students take dominoes from a sack to choose a denominator and spin a spinner (or roll a die) to determine a numerator. Students assemble this generated fraction using fractional pieces of a circle. After three rounds, the student with the most “wholes” WINS. Working with fraction manipulatives gives the teacher insight into the student’s understanding of how fractions relate to one whole, as students build the whole. Furthermore, the fraction manipulatives allow the teacher to use a hands-on and visual model to relay concepts of fractions to wholes.

About the Author

Leslie has been an educator for twenty years. Her love of children and math has produced this exhilarating math game. It was developed over her ten years as a Math/Science Enrichment Teacher in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District. Ms. Ferguson’s teaching experiences are wide and varied including: Student Teaching at University School, three years at Laurel School, five years at Room to Grow and its satellite “The Adventure Club”, a year at Village Preparatory School, a top-rated charter school within the Breakthrough Network, and currently at Whitney Young, teaching Gifted students. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Oberlin College and a Master’s Degree of Education from John Carroll University.