This Instructional Activity is part of the the Lesson 10, Unit 5, Grade 5. Van de Walle states that regarding the area model, at first, students will simply count each small part in the drawings and not notice that the numbers of rows and columns are actually the two numerators and the two denominators, respectively. How can you count the double-shaded parts when you visualize the complete area model?
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