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Comparing Fractions: A. Teaching Basic Fraction Concepts and Operations Using Arc Sectors

This document discusses comparing fractions using arc sectors. It provides examples of using arc sectors to determine whether one fraction is greater than or less than another fraction. The arc sectors are used to visually represent the fractions and see which fraction has a larger portion of the whole circle. Teachers are advised to continue using and explaining the arc sectors even when students can compare fractions without them.

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Comparing Fractions: A. Teaching Basic Fraction Concepts and Operations Using Arc Sectors

This document discusses comparing fractions using arc sectors. It provides examples of using arc sectors to determine whether one fraction is greater than or less than another fraction. The arc sectors are used to visually represent the fractions and see which fraction has a larger portion of the whole circle. Teachers are advised to continue using and explaining the arc sectors even when students can compare fractions without them.

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A.

Teaching basic fraction concepts and operations using arc sectors


3. Comparing fractions
± a. Take an arc sector with ≥ written on it and an arc sector with ≤ written
∏ π
on it.
b. Using these arc sectors, find which fraction (of the two) is greater than
the other. Write > or < : ≥ ≤
∏ π
Discussion
How can we use the arc sectors to find which fraction is greater than the other?

≤ Use the arc sectors, and write > or < for each pair of fractions:

a| b| c|
≤ ≥ ∑ ≥ ≥ µ
π ±∞ ±≤ ¥ µ ±∂

Operation instructions for comparing two fractions

For example, compare the following two fractions: ≥ ≤


∏ π

≤ ≥ ≥ ≤
a. Take the arc sectors of and : ∏≥ π
π ∏ ∫ ∏ Ï˘Â ≤π Ï˘ ˙¯ʂ‰ ˙‡ ÌȇˆÂÓ Æ‡

b. Put one sector over the other, ≤


vertex to vertex and radius to radius: π
≤ ¨˙¯Á‡‰ ÏÚ ˙Á‡ ‰¯Ê‚ ÌÈÁÈÓ Æ·
π ∫ÒÂÈ„¯ χ ÒÂÈ„¯Â „˜„˜ χ≥ „˜„˜ ≤
c. We can see that ≥ is greater than ≤ , and we write the answer: ∏ > π
∏ π

To the teacher:
Like all the other topics in this chapter, the topic of fraction comparison also contains only
simple exercises that can be solved using the arc sectors or the partitioning rings. All other
kinds of comparisons and the rules applying to them will be studied thoroughly in the 5th
grade.
Even when students already solve the problems without using the arc sectors, it is
advisable to dedicate time to explanations concerning the use of arc sectors and partitioning
± ±
rings. For example: " ∑ > ∂ because in order to get ±∑ we divided the circle into more
equal sectors, and therefore each sector is smaller."

5 From One Two and Three, part 11, p. 135

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