Multiplying common fractions

 

 

 

1.  Use the model  to depict the products of the fractions below:

                

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 Move the green square over the violet one. What does the part of the square in which the green and the violet are overlapping represent?

 

 

2.  Find the area of the reactangle with sides two-fifths and three-eights of a unit measure, respectively.

 

 

3.   Use the model to depict the fractions below as a product of two common fractions:

             

How many ways did you find?