Introduction to Fraction Division: Visual Models

Introduction to Fraction Division: Visual Models
Introduction

Fraction division can be easier to understand when using visual models. Visual models show how fractions relate to each other and help explain how many ...

Imagine you bake a tray of brownies and eat half of it with your friends.

Now you want to share the remaining half with your neighbors, giving each neighbor one-fourth of the whole tray. How many neighbors can you serve?

To find this, you want to know how many one-fourth-size pieces of the whole tray can fit into the remaining one-ha...