Texas Math Models

Try “number line” or “4.5D”

Area model · equal parts

3/4 Grade 3

4 EQUAL parts · 3 of them shaded the whole can be any shape: a bar or a circle 34 parts you have equal parts in the whole also cut into 4 parts … 3 of the 4 parts are shaded … … but this is NOT34 the parts are not equal, so none of them is a fourth

How this one works

How

cut the whole into 4 equal parts, then shade 3 of them.

Best when

you want to see how big the fraction is.

seen one of these on a test? See it on a real question: TEKS 4.3D, comparing two fractions, or TEKS 4.2G, decimals and fractions that mean the same thing.

The same problem, other ways