Student-Made Tutorials to Teach Math Concepts

Our fractions unit is a traditionally difficult one in fourth grade. This year, I wanted to come up with an engaging, authentic way for students to work with fractions. I found several digital manipulatives and online resources. I shared them with my students, and I let them explore. I then put student into groups and gave them different math problems involving fractions for them to teach using the various web tools and manipulatives. They worked together to write scripts of exactly what they wanted to say, and they rehearsed how they wanted to teach the concept. When they were ready, I helped them produce their lessons as tutorials. We posted them on our class Moodle site so other classes in the school could use them.