“…Our study extends this work by including a division sentence that does not have a whole number answer as well as requiring teachers to solve their invented problems with a pictorial representation. It has been suggested that one of the major reasons students struggle with fractions is that it requires attending to the referent unit (Philipp & Hawthorne, 2015). In order for teachers to develop this understanding in students it is important that they are able to make sense of the unit with fraction division (Cramer, Monson, Whitney, Leavitt, & Wyberg, 2010).…”