Visual Models!

The students and I have been getting tons of mileage out of the visual models lately. We've started Unit 2 this past Monday and we've been doing a great job so far. We have been doing division with fractions. In this unit, I really want to go over any sort of topic or lesson that deals with division. It's imperative, as some of the division with fraction questions (word problems) are known to be extremely troublesome for students without strong conceptual knowledge. However, these visual models can help dig up this conceptual knowledge and help students understand what's going on in the question.

I have been staying far away from algorithms (aside from having them rewrite these division w/ fraction problems as multiplication, as making that relationship explicit is equally important). I think if we can make sense of plenty of many different types of these questions via visual models, we'll do a pretty decent job with this unit. 604 has seriously been stepping up their game, and the models have been a  great tool for them to use when tackling division w/ fraction questions. So far, what a great start to Unit #2!