2. Overall students in the county did not reach proficiency on fraction standards.

4.  NAEP (National Asssessment of Educational Progress) - looking at data findings showed students consistently making the same errors on certain fraction word problems  Extending Children’s Mathematics: Fraction and Decimals by Susan B. Empson and Linda Levi - teachers often do not devote enough time to helping children build meaning for fractions before moving into equivalences, comparisons, and operations involving fractions.  “Pipes, Tubes and Beakers: New Approaches to Teaching the Rational-Number System” by Joan Moss - too little is devoted to teaching the conceptual meaning of rational numbers, while procedures for manipulating rational numbers receive greater emphasis - virtually no time is spent in relating the various representations- decimals, fractions, percents, - to each other.

5. Goal #1 Students will increase their achievement scores in fractions. Objective: Students will increase their ClassScape scores from 57% to 65%. Objective: Student will improve their mastery of fractions through a variety of multimedia projects.

6. http://mail.onslow.k12.nc.us/exch web/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://ma ccss.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/file/vie w/4thGradeUnit.pdf

7. Students will create a video on certain fractions skills that they did not master. Examples: 4 th grade: (4.NF.5)Express a fraction with denominator 10 as an equivalent fraction with denominator 100, and use this technique to add two fractions with respective denominators 10 and 100. 2 For example, express 3/10 as 30/100, and add 3/10 + 4/100 = 34/100. 5 th grade: (5.NF.6) Solve real world problems involving multiplication of fractions and mixed numbers, e.g., by using visual fraction models or equations to represent the problem.

8.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq-lBb3PO8Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq-lBb3PO8Y

9.  What made this video effective???  What improvements can be made on this video???

10. Movie Rubric http://rubista r.4teachers.o rg This rubric was created using the above website so that students know what is expected from creating their video.

11.  CCSS.Math.Practice.MP1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. CCSS.Math.Practice.MP1  CCSS.Math.Practice.MP2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively. CCSS.Math.Practice.MP2  CCSS.Math.Practice.MP3 Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. CCSS.Math.Practice.MP3  CCSS.Math.Practice.MP4 Model with mathematics. CCSS.Math.Practice.MP4  CCSS.Math.Practice.MP5 Use appropriate tools strategically. CCSS.Math.Practice.MP5  CCSS.Math.Practice.MP6 Attend to precision. CCSS.Math.Practice.MP6  CCSS.Math.Practice.MP7 Look for and make use of structure. CCSS.Math.Practice.MP7  CCSS.Math.Practice.MP8 Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. CCSS.Math.Practice.MP8

12.  Teachers will collaborate with their peers to share resources, ideas, and lesson plans.  Parents will be invited to their child’s classroom where videos will be played. As well as the video being posted on the school and classroom website. Teachers/Faculty Collaboration Community Collaboration