FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS USED REPRESENTATIONS WHILE SOLVING PROBLEMS WHICH REQUIRE COMPARISON AND ORDERING IN FRACTIONS

The purpose of the study was to investigate elementary fifth grade students used representations while solving problems which require comparison and ordering in fractions. Nine students participated and three problems requiring comparison and ordering in fractions were asked to each. In research data was collected via clinical interview technique and in data analysis classification determined by Miles and Huberman (1994) was used. The results obtained from the research showed that students used spoken language, symbolic and pictural (drawing and figure) representations. Moreover, some of the students encountered issues like not construct ing appropriate representation for problem or not associating representation that they used with the problems.