Teacher report on your students Rational Number Knowledge

and any misconceptions (200 words)

I concluded Cassandra's interview after question 12 as she struggled through
most of the questions. Despite the shortened interview process, I did learn
that Cassandra has a great attitude towards mathematics. She looked at and
considered each question, but was happy to pass on questions she "knew"
she could not be able to answer, but wanted to try the next question. In Q1,
we see she recognizes part-whole relationships, but cannot yet proportionally
reason the size of each portion. In Q3 and Q7 identifies more sophisticated
part-whole relationships, especially in Q7 where she saw 2/3 as two parts and
another part made a whole. Cassandra displayed a basic understanding of
fraction equivalence in Q3, could perform simple operations in her head and
recognize commutativity in Q4, and identify improper fractions and concluded
that fraction's value is greater than 1 in Q7.

Misconceptions that arose from the interview were evident in Q4, where
Cassandra added denominators instead of multiplying when finding one-half
of one-third. Here she also drew one-half on a fraction circle and one-third on
another, instead of splitting one-third into halves. In Q7 she tried drawing an
improper fraction with a fraction circle, and needs to move beyond circles for
visual aid. She showed a lack of understanding of place value in Q11 and
Q12, and struggled to convert between place values.
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