Description: In Topic A, students divided a given whole into equal parts to create fractional units (halves, thirds, fourths, etc.). Now, they associate one of the fractional units with a number called the unit fraction. An advantage of the term fractional unit is that it distinguishes the nature of the equal parts generated by partitioning a whole from the whole number division students studied in Modules 1 and 3. In Topic B, to avoid confusion, the term fractional unit is mostly replaced by the term equal part. The equal part is represented by the unit fraction. Students recognize that any non-unit fraction is composed of multiple copies of a unit fraction. They use number bonds to represent this.
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