Take out a sheet of paper. Fold this paper to show what looks like.
What was important about your process in the last problem?
Now, fold your paper to show what looks like.
What was important about your process in the last problem? How does your process
compare to your process for the first fraction?
Using what you’ve learned, come up with a definition for the fraction where and
are both whole numbers.
Now that we have a definition for fractions, let’s practice applying it in various situations.
- Draw a picture that shows of a pan of brownies. Explain how you know your answer is correct.
- What would look like on a number line? Explain how your process of drawing this fraction is connected to our meaning of fractions.
- Draw a picture that shows of a pan of brownies. Explain how you know your answer is correct.
- What would look like on a number line? Explain how your work is connected to the meaning of fractions.
- What does our work in this problem tell us about why our definition of fractions is not “ parts out of ”?
The rectangle below is of some other rectangle. Draw the other rectangle. Explain
how your thinking is connected to our definition of fractions.
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