Fractions

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Fractions

• Multiplication Division

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Multiplication
Using a Calculator
What is happening?
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It works like this
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Multiplication
Is the same thing happening here?
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Now try these
Because the CALCULATOR simplifies fractions
automatically
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Calculator is Cancelling down
Find any number that is a factor of one numerator
AND one denominator
3!
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And again.
Find any number that is a factor of one numerator
AND one denominator
Find another factor of both
3!
2!
Cancelling is quicker
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Division
What is happening?
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How it works?
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Division
Is the same thing happening here?
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Now try these
Cancelling again!
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Division cancelling
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Mixed numbers
Try the questions without calculators first
Remember how to enter a mixed number?