Good morning! Here’s our warm up for today: division worksheet. Please download it below. After your warm up, our topic is a new unit, Unit 11. In this skill, we begin learning how to divide with fractions. Here are our notes.
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Mini lesson on drawing fractions
In preparation for our fraction test today, we spent a few minutes reviewing how fractions can be represent using arrays or diagrams. The picture above shows a common (and tricky!) way.
Practicing fractions and decimals
Today the lesson portion of class focused on working through examples with both decimals and fractions. In discussion, we also previewed how to multiply fractions and reviewed area and perimeter.
Converting fractions to decimals – summary
Students in class today asked about benchmark fractions such as 1/3 and how they would convert to decimals. As they noticed, the issue is that 1 cannot be equally divided by three, so we can use a recurring (or repeating) decimal as an approximation.
Converting fractions to decimals
Our lesson today examines how to convert fractions to decimals where the fraction does not have a denominator which is a multiple of ten. As you can guess, the step we follow is to convert that fraction first to an equivalent fraction with a denominator of ten (or a multiple of ten). From there, itContinue reading “Converting fractions to decimals”
Converting decimals to fractions
We are starting a new topic today: how to work with fractions and decimals in the same expression or equation. The core skill in this topic is being able to convert fractions to decimals and vice versa. Our lesson today focuses on converting decimals to fractions, up to the thousandth place.
Drawing fractions
In whole-group lesson, we looked at various ways of drawing fractions. Here’s an example of visually drawing fractions with unlike denominators and then adding them together visually to see how the denominators become equivalent. Remember to always draw when encountering a new concept!
Adding and subtracting mixed numbers
After the weekend, we reviewed how to add and subtract fractions and began to learn adding and subtracting mixed numbers, where we have a fraction and a whole number.
Adding and subtracting fractions
We reviewed adding fractions with equal denominators and looked at a method of finding common denominators for unlike fractions.
Converting fractions between proper and improper forms
Part of today’s lesson looked at how to convert between proper and improper fractions. We reviewed this skill and connected it to adding and subtracting fractions.
Mr. J’s Math Class 