1. Imagine you have some candies 🍬🍬🍬🍬 and some more candies 🍬🍬🍬.
2. When you put them together, you get all the candies in one big group! ➕
Group 1:
🍬 🍬 🍬 🍬
(4 candies)
➕
🍬 🍬 🍬 🍬
(4 candies)
Group 2:
🍬 🍬 🍬
(3 candies)
=
🍬 🍬 🍬
(3 candies)
Total candies:
🍬 🍬 🍬 🍬 🍬 🍬 🍬
(7 candies)
3. Numbers like these candies are called rational numbers. They can be whole numbers, fractions, or decimals.
4. Rational numbers are numbers you can write as a fraction $\frac{a}{b}$ where $a$ and $b$ are whole numbers and $b \neq 0$.
5. For example, $\frac{3}{4}$ means 3 parts out of 4 equal parts.
6. Great! Now you know that rational numbers are numbers you can count or share equally like candies! 🎉🍬 🍬 🍬 🍬 🍬 🍬 🍬
(7 candies)