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How a Number Line Can Help Ease Anxiety About Fractions - A Math Education SmartBrief
Hung-Hsi Wu, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, helped develop the Common Core State Standards for math. In this blog post, he discusses fractions as the source of some students' math anxiety and how a number line can help ease students' anxiety.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2015/02/fractionphobia_the_root_of_mat.html