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What Textbooks Don’t Tell You about Fractions Kathleen Strange Jennifer North Morris

What Textbooks Don’t Tell You about Fractions

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What Textbooks Don’t Tell You about Fractions

Kathleen StrangeJennifer North Morris

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Where are Fractions?

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(c) 2011 Kathleen Casey Strange

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• What happens as the numerator stays the same and the denominator gets larger?

• Can you have ?

• Name a fraction between and .

• Where does live on the number line?

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Where are Fractions?

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Where are Fractions?

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