Often, students who solve fraction tasks respond in ways that indicate inadequate conceptual grounding of unit fractions. Consider, for example, a student, Lia (all names are pseudonyms), who examined a long, rectangular piece of paper she had folded in the middle into two equal parts (halves).
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