Thursday, January 23, 2014

EQUIVALENT FRACTIONS

Students were given a quick time to discover the missing numbers. As I walked around monitoring everyone working, I saw students who knew exactly what to put and others who were trying to develop a method that would work. We shared the correct answers and then discussed the 2 methods for determining if fractions are equivalent.
 Pizza Fractions
Pizza Fractions

METHOD #1 - CROSS MULTIPLY

















METHOD #2 - WORK ACROSS 
















SIMPLIFYING A FRACTIONS IS ALSO CREATING AN EQUIVALENT FRACTIONS
Use the "L" method to simplify the 2 numbers in the fraction



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