Integration & Review
📋 What it is
Multi-step fraction problems: break them into steps, do one operation at a time, and keep track of the whole.
🗣️ Coach says
Big problems aren’t harder — they’re just several small steps in a row. Read carefully, decide the ONE next operation, do it, then look again. Tracking what “the whole” is at each step keeps you from getting lost.
🧠 Memory hook
One step at a time. Decide the next single operation, do it, then re-read.
😂 Giggle
Why did 3/4 feel superior to 1/2?
Because it was a greater fraction of the conversation!
😲 Whoa!
The hardest fraction problems are almost always just three easy steps stacked — the difficulty is organisation, not the math.
✅ Quick check: You ate 1/4 of a cake, then 1/2 of what was LEFT. How much of the whole cake did the second bite take?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
3/8 — after 1/4 is gone, 3/4 remains; half of 3/4 is 3/8 of the whole cake.
Multi-step problems require tracking the changing whole at each step.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Solve a two-step one: “Spend 1/3 of $12, then 1/2 of what’s left.” Write each step and what the whole is after step 1.