Anyway, the assessment continued with a few pretty standard
questions sorting out some knowledge about adding and
subtracting fractions - nothing ground breaking. The last
question is what I want to share. It asked students to complete
some sentence starters. Here are a few things they said.
Complete these sentences... a) Fractions are.... a way of
representing something that is not quite a whole pieces of
things that are divided up a way of showing non-integers a
part/portion/piece of a whole dividing between the denominator
and the numerator b) When you add two fractions, you have to....
add the numerators together if they have the same denominator
add the numerators together unless the denominator is different
then you have to x it by something else to make it the same I
don't know exactly what to do but I suggest you draw a pizza If
they have a common denominator then you merely add up the top
numbers but if they don't you can draw a picture or find a
common denominator c) You use fractions when you.... d