Topic 2: Positive Rational Numbers
The focus of this topic is fraction division.
Students review fraction and decimal comparisons and multiplying with fractions prior to working with fraction division. Algorithms for fraction division are addressed in this topic, but bear in mind that students may not achieve fluency within the timeline allowed for this topic. Fluency requires time and practice. Although this topic represents the culmination of students’ learning about operations with fractions, they will
continue to develop fl uency with fraction operations throughout the course