Friday, November 20, 2009

8.1 Equivalent Fractions (p.182-185)

I. Equivalent fractions: fraction showing the same amount of the whole that are equal in value and show the same part of the whole. They show the ratio of parts.

II. Common Factors: use common factors to change the numerator and denominator in the same way to find equivalent fractions and put fractions in simplest form.

Check out this helpful info. from themathpage.com for answers to common equivalent fractions questions.
Use this tool from Harcourt for finding factors to make equivalent fractions.
Try this game from LearningPlanet.com. It gets faster and faster every round :).

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