Assertion: fraction | /r/HasProperty | equivalent
Facets:
value: to the origin
type: OTHER
value: to a fraction
type: OTHER
value: with attention
type: OTHER
value: to whole numbers
type: OTHER
value: by using a visual fraction model
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Explain why the fractions are equivalent, e.g., by using a visual fraction model.
text: We can determine if fractions are equal using cross products too.
text: c. Express whole numbers as fractions, and recognize fractions that are equivalent to whole numbers.
text: Explain why a fraction a/b is equivalent to a fraction (n x a)/(n x b) by using visual fraction models, with attention to how the number and size of the parts differ even though the two fractions themselves are the same size.
text: The concept of equivalent fractions seems simple – just multiply the numerator and denominator by the same factor to get another fraction that is equivalent to the origin.
text: Not only is this not helping in the conceptual understanding of equivalent fractions, but introducing the topic in this way wastes a perfectly good opportunity for the students to exercise their logic reasoning and induction muscles and discover for themselves what equivalence means, which fractions are equivalent and how to find them.