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Developing a Conceptual Understanding of Fractions

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Fractions of a Design

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This page shows a design made with pattern blocks.
The design is made with one yellow hexagon, two red trapezoids, four blue rhombuses, and four green triangles.

What fraction of the design is blue?
What fraction of the design is red?
What fraction of the design is yellow?
What fraction of the design is green?

(Cynthia Lanius’s Lessons)