(music plays)

Troy stands next to a wall touch screen showing the logo of the program. He is in her late twenties, clean-shaven and bald. He wears a blue T-shirt with a print that reads "Home Work Zone."

He says HEY
TVO KIDS!
WELCOME TO THE
HOMEWORK ZONE,
I'M
TEACHER TROY,
AND WE'RE GOING TO
TALK ABOUT
FRACTIONS.
FRACTIONS ARE
BASICALLY JUST
DIVISION.

The division sign appears on the screen.

He continues WHEN WE TALK ABOUT
DIVISION,
YOU GUYS WILL
NOTICE THIS SIGN
FROM YOUR
CALCULATOR.
A FRACTION HAS THREE
PARTS, WHICH
ARE VERY,
VERY IMPORTANT.
IF YOU LOOK
AT IT,
WE HAVE
THE NUMERATOR,
THE NICE FAMOUS
LINE, I'LL TELL
YOU ITS NAME
RIGHT AFTER,
AND THE
DENOMINATOR.
A FRACTION GIVES YOU
AN INSTRUCTION,
IT'S
AN ORDER.
SO BASICALLY
IT TELLS YOU,
DIVIDE-
DIVISION.
SO FOR EXAMPLE,
NUMERATOR
DIVIDED
BY DENOMINATOR.
THERE'S THREE PARTS
TO THE FRACTION,
AS I SAID.
THE DENOMINATOR,
WHICH IS RIGHT HERE,
THE BOTTOM
NUMBER,
TELLS YOU HOW
MANY EQUAL PARTS
THE WHOLE IS
DIVIDED INTO.
SO FOR
EXAMPLE,
IF YOU HAVE A PIZZA
AND YOU TAKE IT
RIGHT ALONG
THE MIDDLE AND YOU
CUT IT RIGHT
DOWN,
YOU'RE
GOING TO HAVE TWO
EQUAL PARTS,
IN THAT CASE
THE DENOMINATOR
WILL BE TWO.
SO WHENEVER YOU
LOOK AT THE FRACTION,
WHICH IS ONE
HALF,

He writes the fraction using his index finger and continues WHAT THAT
MEANS IS YOU HAVE
TWO EQUAL PARTS
THAT THE WHOLE
IS
DIVIDED INTO,
AND ONE IS THE
NUMERATOR,
WHICH TELLS
YOU THE NUMBER OF
EQUAL PARTS THAT
ARE REPRESENTED.
SO BASICALLY,
WHAT YOU'LL END UP
DOING IS IF YOU
HAVE TO TYPE
THIS INTO A
CALCULATOR TO FIND
OUT EXACTLY WHAT
YOUR ANSWER IS,
ONE DIVIDED BY
TWO WILL GIVE YOU
AN ANSWER
OF 0.5,
WHICH IS
BASICALLY JUST AN
EXPRESSION OF THE
RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN
THESE TWO NUMBERS.
SO WHENEVER YOU
SEE FRACTIONS,
ALL YOU HAVE TO
DO IS THINK ABOUT
DIVISION AND THINK
ABOUT EQUAL PARTS.
I'M TEACHER TROY
AND I HOPE THAT HELPS.