1. MMPI Decimals and Fractions
St. Clair County RESA Professional Development Day November 4, 2008
Presenter: Dr. Monica Hartman

2. MMPI Project Focus
Provide professional service to special education and general education teachers of special education students who must take the MEAP
Intentionally narrow to address AYP issues
Relevant to broader audience

3. MMPI Website
michiganmathematics.org

4. Instructional Components
The MMPI project emphasizes connections among three types of representations.
Symbolic
Verbal
Concrete
Manipulative
Pictorial
The ability to move fluently from one representation to another is a measure of students’ depth of knowledge.

5. Chapter Focus Overview of Chapter Sequence of topics
Analysis of aligned GLCE
Relevant MEAP item analysis
Selected MEAP released items
Variety of instructional strategies

6. Diagnostic Inventories
Given a contextual situation, draw a representation
Given a mathematical statement, identify a related representation
Given a representation, write a related mathematical statement
Compute basic facts
Compute basic problems
Compute intermediate problems
Compute complex problems

7. GLCEs by Grade
March 2005

8. Chapters Chapter 2: Place Value and Numeration
Chapter 3: Whole Number Addition and Subtraction
Chapter 4: Whole Number Multiplication and Division
Chapter 5: Decimals (Basic)
Chapter 6: Fractions (Basic)

9. What does this expression mean?
4 ÷ 2

10. What does this expression mean?
2 ÷ 1/2

11. What does this expression mean?
1 ÷ 1/3

12. What does this expression mean?
1/3 ÷ 3

13. Solve this problem.
4 2/5 ÷ 1/3

14. I purchases 5 ¾ pounds of chocolate –covered peanuts
I purchases 5 ¾ pounds of chocolate –covered peanuts. I want to store the candy in ½ pound bags so that I can freeze it and use it in smaller portions. How many ½ pound bags can I make?