Two Names
3/4 and 0.75 are the same number wearing two names. The bar in the middle of a fraction is a division sign — divide the top by the bottom, and the decimal name appears.
Watching one first is a strong way to start.
Look only at the bottom number. Halves, quarters, fifths, eighths and tenths stop. Thirds, sixths and ninths repeat.
Divide the top by the bottom — the top goes inside the division. Never the other way around.
- 11/2 = stopsrepeatscircle one first
- 23/4 = stopsrepeatscircle one first
- 31/3 = stopsrepeatscircle one first
- 41/5 = stopsrepeatscircle one first
- 52/3 = stopsrepeatscircle one first
- 67/10 = stopsrepeatscircle one first
- 75/6 = stopsrepeatscircle one first
- 83/8 = stopsrepeatscircle one first
- 91/9 = stopsrepeatscircle one first
- 104/5 = stopsrepeatscircle one first
There is no right answer here. It only tells your teacher where to start next time.
You renamed all ten.
One sentence did all of it: the fraction bar is a division sign. Top divided by bottom, every time — and the bottom number told you in advance whether the digits would stop or repeat.
The stretch is a choice. Taking it — or leaving it for another day — are both strong moves.
For the teacher — this device only
One probe row, built from what happened on this screen. Nothing is sent anywhere — copy it into the Goal Builder yourself, or print this page. Independent means walked with no hints; supported means walked after a hint. Both are real evidence and neither is a grade.
- Date
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- Skill
- Rewrite fractions as decimals
- Measure
- Trials (x of y)
- Independent
- 0 of 10
- Supported
- 0 of 10
- Hints used
- 0
- Slips
- —
- Confidence
- —
- Watched the demo
- —
- Stretch
- —
Six stop and four repeat in every set, mixed — a student who has only met terminating decimals decides that 0.33 is where thirds end. The row below counts stop-or-repeat slips and name slips separately, because they are different instruction: one is number sense about the denominator, the other is the division itself. Set 2 and Set 3 are the same skills with different numbers.