Grade 3 Math: Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions
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Teaching Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions
What it is
Converting between the two ways of writing an amount greater than one: seven quarters written as 7/4, or as one whole and three quarters, 1 3/4. Both name the same amount.
When a child is ready
Ready once a fraction is read as a number of equal parts and a child can say how many quarters make one whole.
If they struggle
If the conversion is done by a half-remembered rule, go back to the picture: draw two circles in quarters, shade seven of them, and count the wholes and the leftovers. Say the division out loud — seven quarters is seven divided into groups of four, one whole with three left — before writing the rule down again.
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