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What if you used representations of $1? Print out and laminate coins and show that way maybe? Kids love money- heck I like money! 😉🥳
I was thinking the same... Use money.
What curriculum do you use?
Talk about dividing groups into ____ pieces
.5 / .5 is going to be a total of 4 pieces so .25 (although) this is a log easier with fractions...
Otherwise you could use partial quotients
.5/.5=1
.5/2=.25
I use tenths and hundredths to divide all by fractions so if kids understand that 10 tenths equals 1 I can divide 1/2 by putting 1/10 on every other side until I get 5-10 on each side which is the decimal point five
with 1/4 I put 1/10 in each quarter then another tents in each quarter but I can't go around with four more tenths cuz I only have two so I have to go with 4 sets of five hundredths
once you get halves quarters and thirds you can create 1/9 + 1/6 + 1/8 and 1/12
for Fifth's I keep using my distribution of 1/10
with fractions like seventh I always recommend long division
Re visit parts of a whole, and fractions. Use like a Hershey's bar (with the little squares) or skittles etc. Something they can ultimately break up (after distributing the pieces equally), by an uneven # of people. Have them show strategies (drawing a picture is an example) to solve. If you need to you can use fraction tiles to show division also. I hope this helps!