Another common struggle: the parts-of-a-whole problem. Fractions are introduced through the “pizza model,” but students’ ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Speaker: When you split a whole thing into parts you get fractions. When you divide a whole into 2 equal parts, you ...

To divide fractions by a whole number, we divide the numerator by the whole number and the denominator stays the same. The calculation is \( \frac{4}{5}\) ÷ 2. We know that 4 ÷ 2 = 2 so we can ...