Jeanine,+Kevin,+Judy

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**We are going to be talking about multiplying and dividing fractions.**

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__media type="custom" key="782381" Example: 5/8 x 6/7__ When you're multiplying fractions, the first thing you do is multiply the denominators. With this example your answer will be 56 for the denominator. After you multiply the denominators, you have to multiply the numerators. With this example your answer will be 30 for the numerator. As of now your answer is 30/56 You can divide both by 6, which is simplification. Your new simplified answer will be **5/7**

Try this: You are going on a a trip of four miles, and you have gone two thirds of the way. How far have you gone?

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media type="custom" key="782395" __Example : 7/9 (divided by) 1/2__ When you divide fractions, you first have to find the reciprocal of the second number in the question. ( the reciprocal is the number you multiply to the number so it becomes 1.) In this case, the reciprocal of 1/2 is 2/1 ( 1/2 x 2/1 = 1) Next, you replace the second number with its reciprocal, and multiply the question. 7/9 (divided by) 1/2 ---> 7/9 x 2/1 Multiply the denominators : 9 x 1= 9 << this becomes the answer's denominator Multiply the numerators: 7 x 2= 14 << this becomes the answer's denominator Now your answer is 14/9 You can turn that fraction into a mixed fraction by dividing 14 by 9 You'll have 1 whole with 5/9 left over The simplified answer is **1 5/9**

Try this: Jamie has 1/4 of a pizza, and splits that piece into 3 pieces, what fraction of the whole pizza is one of those pieces?

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Try this: If Sarah's mark on a test is 6/10, what is her mark as a percent?

The Finished Project - Our Unproject

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Reflections:
Jeanine's Reflection

This project provides an overview of our best mathematical understanding we have learned so far just from the questions that we answered in the video. Yes, they were wrong on the tape, but we showed how to get the actual answer on the written part of the tape. It shows the mathwork that we've done this year.

I started remembering a lot from the beginning of the year, so in a way, I guess I did learn something from this assignment. It was educationally valuable to me, in other words, I wouldn't remember most of this stuff if we hadn't had to do the project. My note taking also wasn't the greatest at the beginning of the year and I would probably screw up the exam if we didn't do the project.

Judy's Reflection __Why did you choose the concepts you did for your unproject?__ -We chose to do a game show for our unproject because it was a fun and easy way to learn how to multiply and divide fractions as well as using percents __How does this project provide an overview of your best mathematical understanding of what you have learned so far?__ -This project provides an overview of our best mathematical understanding of what we have learned so far because we showed how to answer the problems step by step (even though the answers that were said in the video were wrong) __Did you learn anything from this assignment?__ -From this assignment, I learned that it’s so much easier to study for exams when we do something like this. We had fun making this project, and because we worked on it for so long, fractions and percents became easier to understand. __Was it educationally valuable to you?__ -To tell you the truth, yeah. It was good to review for those things because we sort of rushed everything near the end of the year, and didn’t let it all sink in before exams started.\ Kevin's Reflection // Why did you choose the concepts you did for your unproject? // We choose to do a game show because it is exciting and we thaught that it would be a cool way for us to put some fun and interest into math:) // How does this project provide an overview of your best mathematical understanding of what you have learned so far? // This project provides a over of our best mathematical skills and what we have learned so far because we went over and showed all of our mathwork. // Did you learn anything from this assignment? // Yes i did learn alot of things form doing this assignment. I had a chance to refresh my memory before the exam. I also think that doing this project has made me better understand fractions and percents. // Was it educationally valuable to you? // yes it is educationally valuble to me because i helped me as a review before the exam and it was a fun experance.


 * // THANKS FOR EVERYTHNG THIS YEAR MR. HARBECK :) //**