The purposes of the Curriculum Resource Guides Are:

By sorting fractions in our heads according to how close they are to 0, 1/2, or 1 whole, it becomes easy to compare fractions that have different denominators. The discussion also included the fact that when we are comparing fractions, we do so knowing that the whole is always the same size (in other words when we compare 2/5 of a pizza to 5/8 ... ................
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