I saw an interesting tweet last wee that got me thinking about fractions:
Today as sort of a unusual way to play around with fractions I thought it would be fun to try to write some fractions in binary. It has been a while since we talked about binary, though, so I had my son tell me what he knew about binary first:
Next we moved on to writing fractions in binary – we started with some simple cases:
Finally, we tried to write 1/3 in binary. This video shows what a kid thinking through a math problem can look like, and also shows why I thought this exercise would be a nice fraction review:
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