A hexagon is composed of 6 congruent equilateral triangles. Each equilateral triangle has interior angle of 60 degrees. Adding 6 such angles together gets you to 360 degrees. So we've done one full rotation and covered every bit of the plane surrounding a given point. Extend this out and you'll be able to cover the plane. A similar situation happens with rectangles as well (think of a grid, or think of tiles on the wall or floor)
In contrast, a regular pentagon has interior angle 108 degrees. This is not a factor of 360, so there is no way to place regular pentagons to have them line up and not be a gap or overlap. This is why regular pentagons do not tessellate the plane. The same can be aside about decagons and octagons as well.
Showing fractions with models is giving a visual and sometimes can be easier to process.They also can be in picture form or other.Ex. A piece of pizza cut into fourths.
Showing fractions on a number line is also giving a visual but still allows you to add and subtract using numbers if that makes sense.Ex. . ----.-------. 1/3 2/3 3/3
