Two students were working on an assignment. They hovered over the handout, holding yellow pencils and talking in hushed voices.<\/p>\n
“See, you divide by a fraction right here,” one said.<\/p>\n
“But that’s the hard way,” the other replied after a moment’s delay.<\/p>\n
You see, fractions are a mystery to most of them. Their understanding of numbers consists of three categories: integers, decimals, and fractions, and they seem to think these are distinct concepts.<\/p>\n
The sight of fractions causes many of them give up. And division<\/strong><\/em> by fractions is a flagrant abomination.<\/p>\n “That really is the hard way,” the second student repeated.<\/p>\n “Yes,” the first conceded, “but I like to do things the hard way.”<\/p>\n Correction: division by fractions is an abomination to most<\/strong> of them.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two students were working on an assignment. They hovered over the handout, holding yellow pencils and talking in hushed voices. “See, you divide by a fraction right here,” one said. “But that’s the hard way,” the other replied after a moment’s delay. You see, fractions are a mystery to most of them. Their understanding of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5854,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions\/5854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}