Exploring the Use of Slow Motion Animation (Slowmation) as a Teaching Strategy to Develop Year 4 Students' Understandings of Equivalent Fractions.

In 2006, as a beginning teacher in a Western Sydney school, I explored slow motionanimation ("slowmation") as a strategy for teaching Year 4 students about equivalentfractions. I taught at this school five days a week, teaching Kindergarten, Year 4, and Year 5. For half of the school year I taught the Year 4 class 1 day per week, in order to provide executive release for another staff member at the school. While in the Year 4 class of 28 students, I had an active role in planning the learning experiences. I aimed to use a variety of teaching strategies and utilize the technology available within the school, as well as engage the enthusiasm of the students and staff. When asked to teach the Year 4students equivalent fractions, I decided to take a different approach to the abstractmathematical concept and assist students in creating a slowmation