October 2015, Vol. 22, Issue 3
Units Matter
Ji Yeong I, Barbara J. Dougherty, and Zaur Berkaliev
The meat and potatoes of fraction multiplication is the change of units.
Imagine a fifth-grade classroom where the teacher is trying to link multiplication of fractions to multiplication skills that students have previously learned.
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