TMN3704 Assignment 03 (Teaching Mathematics in the Intermediate Phase)

STUDENT NUMBER: 62191411




ASSIGNMENT 03

UNIQUE NO.: 863900

TMN3704
TEACHING MATHEMATICS
(INTERMEDIATE PHASE)




DUE DATE: 16 JULY 2020

, QUESTION 1:
1. Concerning the CAPS documents:
1.1. Explain the Horizontal progression of common fractions for Grades 4
to 6. Illustrate with examples.

Fractions consist of two parts:




The denominator determines the size of the fraction and the numerator
determines how many of these sizes there are in the number that you’re
working with.
3 1
Using the above example means that there are 3 individual pieces of
5 5
3
that are put together, together they make .
5
This means that the bigger the numerator, the bigger the value of the
fraction if the denominators are the same.
1 3
E.g. is less than .
5 5

See the below illustration of number progression of fractions with the same
denominator.




In fractions, the bigger the denominator - the smaller the value of the
1 1
number. This means that is smaller than .
5 4
See the below number line to illustrate the horizontal progression of
fractions with different denominators:




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