What models can teachers use to help children understand operations on fractions?
What will be an ideal response?
Complete answers will include the following: Although regular figures such as triangles, rectangles, pentagons, hexagons, octagons, and decagons are good models to show fractional parts, the circular shape is more versatile because any unit fraction can easily be represented (Figure 11-1). Also, the circles can be used to model fraction computation.
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