Dividing Fractions

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Dividing Fractions
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Rhiannon is planning to make friendship
bracelets for her friends. Each bracelet is made
with a piece of string that is 1/8 m in length.
How many bracelets can she cut from a piece of
string that is 3 m long?
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Rhiannon is planning to make friendship
bracelets for her friends. Each bracelet is made
with a piece of string that is 1/8 m in length.
How many bracelets can she cut from a piece of
string that is 3 m long? Fractions may look
different, but remember they are still numbers.
We should still think of division in the same
way.
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Rhiannon is planning to make friendship
bracelets for her friends. Each bracelet is made
with a piece of string that is 1/8 m in length.
How many bracelets can she cut from a piece of
string that is 3 m long? Fractions may look
different, but remember they are still numbers.
We should still think of division in the same
way. Here, we are trying to figure out how many
times one number will fit into another number.
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Rhiannon is planning to make friendship
bracelets for her friends. Each bracelet is made
with a piece of string that is 1/8 m in length.
How many bracelets can she cut from a piece of
string that is 3 m long?
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Rhiannon is planning to make friendship
bracelets for her friends. Each bracelet is made
with a piece of string that is 1/8 m in length.
How many bracelets can she cut from a piece of
string that is 3 m long?
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Rhiannon is planning to make friendship
bracelets for her friends. Each bracelet is made
with a piece of string that is 1/8 m in length.
How many bracelets can she cut from a piece of
string that is 3 m long?
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Rhiannon is planning to make friendship
bracelets for her friends. Each bracelet is made
with a piece of string that is 1/8 m in length.
How many bracelets can she cut from a piece of
string that is 3 m long?
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Rhiannon is planning to make friendship
bracelets for her friends. Each bracelet is made
with a piece of string that is 1/8 m in length.
How many bracelets can she cut from a piece of
string that is 3 m long? Invert and
Multiply !!!
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Rhiannon is planning to make friendship
bracelets for her friends. Each bracelet is made
with a piece of string that is 1/8 m in length.
How many bracelets can she cut from a piece of
string that is 3 m long?
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Rhiannon is planning to make friendship
bracelets for her friends. Each bracelet is made
with a piece of string that is 1/8 m in length.
How many bracelets can she cut from a piece of
string that is 3 m long?
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Rhiannon is planning to make friendship
bracelets for her friends. Each bracelet is made
with a piece of string that is 1/8 m in length.
How many bracelets can she cut from a piece of
string that is 3 m long? Rhiannon can
make 24 bracelets from a 3 m rope.
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Dividing Fractions
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Dividing Fractions
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Dividing Fractions
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Divide.
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Divide.
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Divide. Invert and Multiply !
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Divide. 15 and 5 have a common
factor.
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Divide. Divide them both by 5.
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Divide.
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Divide. 22 and 6 have a
common factor.
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Divide. Divide them both by
2.
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Divide. Divide them both by
2.
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Divide.
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Dividing Fractions
Ex) Divide.