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How Do You Solve a Word Problem That Compares Two Fractions?
Who made more money in the stock market, Brad or Ariel? Brad's stock went up, but Ariel's stock fluctuated up and down. Set up an inequality to solve this one. Ariel will have several terms as her stock fluctuated and Brad has a single...
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Three Ways to Solve a Proportion
The demonstration doesn't necessarily show how to solve a proportion, rather it shows how to determine if two given ratios are equal in proportion.
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Finding Unit Ratios
Duane Habecker demonstrates how he determines the unit ratio for each stick in a pack of gum. He does do a good job defining what a unit ratio is, but fails to follow through on explaining why the denominator needs to be equal to 1 and...
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Finding Equivalent Ratios
Duane explains the process needed to determine if two fractions are equivalent. There are two ways to do this, in one scenario he compares two fractions and multiplies by two to determine that the two fractions are equivalent. In the...
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Changing Percents into Fractions
Find out what a percent is, how it relates to fractions, and how to change a percent into a fraction. Viewers are shown three different examples where 100 becomes the denominator and the newly formed fraction is reduced. This clip could...
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Changing Mixed Fractions into Improper Numbers
Bring home a math tutor for your budding math geniuses. Duane explains how to convert a mixed fraction into an improper number. This clip is helpful because he first draws what the mixed fraction represents and how it would look as an...
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Changing Fractions into Percents
While this method only works on certain fractions, it does help learners see the relationship between fractions and percentages. The tutor works through three example problems where he simply changes the denominator to 100 and then...
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Changing Fractions Into Decimals
If your learners are in need of some assistance remembering the procedure necessary to change a fraction into a decimal, then they're in luck. This math tutorial will provide them with a quick, clear, and easy-to-follow example showing...
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Changing Decimals Into Fractions
This simplistic explanation describes how to change a decimal into a fraction. The tutor does a good job explaining that the place value of the decimal determines the number needed in the denominator, but reduces each fraction with out...
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5th Grade: Dividing Fractions
This clip may be of some use, provided either as a tutorial for students or a methodology for a teacher. Dividing fractions is described and associated as flipping and dipping similar to rip and dip at Pizza Hut. Note: This video appears...
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Basic Math: Lesson 6 - #8 - Division of Fractions
Dividing fractions! This clip begins with fraction circles described as parts of a whole, shows the actual fractions that represent the images, then defines what reciprocal means. Example problems employing the use of a reciprocal show...
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Basic Math: Lesson 6 - #10 - Subtraction of Fractions
This is a full lesson created to assist learners in subtracting mixed numbers and fractions. The instructor speaks quickly and fails to explain his thinking completely. He refers to LCD, completes problems involving negative numbers, and...
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What's the Least Common Denominator?
Help your class take on the least common denominator by providing them with this informational video. The video gives a definition of the least common denominator and includes an example using 2 algebraic fractions. This is definitely a...
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How Do You Subtract Mixed Fractions with the Same Denominator?
There are many ways to subtract mixed fractions. The teacher demonstrates one method of how to break up the mixed number and subtract the whole numbers apart from the fractions. Once that is complete she puts the whole number and...