I remember my cooperating teacher back when I was student teaching bemoaning that fact that everyone is terrified of fractions. He would say he just has to decorate his car with a large fraction on each of the doors and no one will ever dream of stealing his car.
Fractions in equations can cause difficulty as well and I don't want students turning those fractions into decimals to deal with them (especially if they are repeating decimals and they round - ugh!!).
I address this with "fraction busters" - a way to eliminate fractions before equation solving to make life much easier!
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