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Standards for School Mathematics, page 33

In grades 3 though 5, students can learn to compare fractions to familiar benchmarks such as 1/2. And, as their number sense develops, students should be able to reason about numbers by, for instance, explaining that 1/2 + 3/8 must be less that 1 because each addend is less than or equal to 1/2.

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