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    The document discusses using story problems to teach fractions. It provides two examples: one where a mother divides a loaf of bread equally between 4 children, corresponding to the fraction 1/4, and another where a student divides a sheet of paper into 5 equal parts and uses 2 parts for a project, corresponding to the fraction 2/5. It asks students to draw the fractions that correspond to each story and explains that while the paper is not circular, the circle represents the whole object that was divided into parts.

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    The document discusses using story problems to teach fractions. It provides two examples: one where a mother divides a loaf of bread equally between 4 children, corresponding to the fraction 1/4, and another where a student divides a sheet of paper into 5 equal parts and uses 2 parts for a project, corresponding to the fraction 2/5. It asks students to draw the fractions that correspond to each story and explains that while the paper is not circular, the circle represents the whole object that was divided into parts.

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    The document discusses using story problems to teach fractions. It provides two examples: one where a mother divides a loaf of bread equally between 4 children, corresponding to the fraction 1/4, and another where a student divides a sheet of paper into 5 equal parts and uses 2 parts for a project, corresponding to the fraction 2/5. It asks students to draw the fractions that correspond to each story and explains that while the paper is not circular, the circle represents the whole object that was divided into parts.

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    Teaching basic fraction concepts and operations using arc sectors


    9. Story problems

    Story 1: Mother divided a loaf of bread equally between her four children.
    • Is there a fraction corresponding to this story? Explain:

    • Draw in the circle a fraction that corresponds to the story.


    • What correspods to the circle in the story?

    Story 2: Dalia cut a sheet of bristol paper into 5 equal parts.


    She used two of these parts for her end-of-the-year project.

    Are there fractions corresponding to this story?


    What fractions correspond to it?

    Draw the fractions you suggested in circles.


    What corresponds to the circle in the story?

    Discussion Why does the loaf of bread in story 1 correspond to the circle
    in the drawing?
    Is the bristol paper in story 2 circular? Why does it correspond
    to the circle in the drawing?

    To the teacher:
    To help the students find what in each story corresponds to the whole circle, you might
    ask them what is divided into equal parts. This is the object that corresponds to the
    whole circle.

    11 From One Two and Three, part 11, pp. 179, 180

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