Kaylee brought home some homework today on fractions. She says she enjoys math a lot. She was having trouble understanding how to add simple fractions, when really you are taking pieces of pie away. She thought it seemed more like subtraction than addition. It was sweet to see her little mind at work. She drew a pie with 5 slices and then colored in the ones that were taken away in order to add the fractions. This was confusing to her. I helped explain to her that we are not taking pieces of pie away, we are eating them! If one person eats 3 pieces, and one person eats 1 piece, then that means that 4 pieces of pie out of 5 slices total are eaten.
This concept finally clicked in her mind and it was like a lightbulb went on over her head. She got it. It made sense. And she did every single problem correctly after that. She even went on to add fractions to get whole pies plus some and that was fun to teach her. She is so talented and strong in her little brain.
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