The purpose of this activity is to support students in equally partitioning a whole length into a given number of parts. Students learn to meet the three criteria for partitioning a whole:
Next steps
Encourage students to make generalisations about the meaning of the numerator as a count of equal parts. They might write equations like, 4/7 = 1/7 + 1/7 + 1/7 + 1/7.
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