“Who would draw a picture to divide 2/3 by 3/4?” asked Marina Ratner, a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, in a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece.
Work out \(\frac{3}{5} \times \frac{2}{3}\). Work out \(2 \frac{1}{3} \times 1 \frac{1}{2}\). \(2 \frac{1}{3} = \frac{7}{3}\) (\(\frac{2 \times 3 + 1}{3}\)) and \(1 ...
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Fractions, often perceived as daunting, become manageable with the right approach. Addition and subtraction require finding a common denominator, while multiplication involves directly multiplying ...
Fractions are a foundational piece for tackling mathematics at all levels of schooling. Students need to understand how two numbers interact with each other as numerators and denominators, as ratios, ...
The film features a muskox named Lola who struggles with dividing fractions despite being intelligent in other areas of math. Her friend, Arthur the Arctic Fox, teaches her how to approach dividing ...
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Work out \(\frac{3}{5} \times \frac{2}{3}\). \(\frac{3}{5} \times \frac{2}{3} = \frac{3 \times 2}{5 \times 3} = \frac{6}{15}\) \(\frac{6}{15}\) can be simplified to ...