Download or read book Navigating Through Number and Operations in Grades 6-8 written by Sid Rachlin and published by National Council of Teachers of. This book was released on 2006 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle school students consolidate their understanding of integers and rational numbers, increasing their facility with fractions, decimals, and percents and encountering proportionality. This book shows how students can explore these important ideas in such diverse activities as exchanging currency and using area models to develop algorithms for multiplying and dividing fractions. Underlying each activity is the belief that students learn best when they build computational fluency on a firm conceptual foundation. The supplemental CD-ROM features interactive electronic activities, master copies of activity pages for students, and additional readings for teachers. --Publisher.