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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