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Fractions: the wall most children hit

Why halves make sense and sevenths do not, and how to get past it.

Why halves make sense and sevenths do not, and how to get past it.

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Arjun S.

Teaches maths at Rao Academy for Grades 4 to 10. Eleven years in classrooms before that, most of them spent watching children hit the same wall in the same year.