If 3 is greater than 2, then â…“ must be bigger than ½â€”right? Wrong. As thousands of students head back to school, many will use exactly that kind of thinking when faced with fractions for the first ...
Dividing by a fraction tells us how many smaller parts make up a whole number or another fraction. Bar models can help visualise the process of dividing by a fraction. We can also use the 'invert and ...