“…Thus, limited content in the form of teaching only halves and quarters and the use of pre-partitioned manipulatives, could be contributory factors. Some studies also demonstrate that semantic alignment largely correlates with the learning of fractions (DeWolf et al, 2014;Kallai & Tzelgov, 2009;Park & Brannon, 2013Sasanguie et al, 2013;Schulze, 2016;Schleppegrell, 2007;Thwaite, 2015;Turkan, de Oliveira, Lee, & Phelps, 2014;van Lier & Walqui, 2012). Both children and adults find it easier and more natural to solve or construct semantically-aligned rather than misaligned word problems (DeWolf et al, 2014).…”