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Elementary Mathematics

Lesson 109

Equivalent Fractions

Same amount, different names

Equivalent fractions

1/2, 2/4 and 3/6 shade the same length of equal strips.

Equivalent fractions

1/22/43/63/6: all the same amount.
Equivalent fractions.
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Conceptual model: a simplified teaching picture.

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Fold identical strips into halves, quarters and sixths.

1/2 = ?/6

Equivalent fractions name the same amount of the same whole.