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Early Steps Count: Teaching Arithmetic to Prepare Students for Algebra

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Division of fractions

1  3/4 ÷ 1/2

People solve this problem in different ways. How do you solve it? Can you solve it in more than one way?

Imagine you are teaching fractions. What is a story you would make up to fit with this problem?