Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Simplifying (Or Reducing) Fractions
At this site from the Oswego City School District, you can learn how to simplify fraction (rational expression) that contain monomials or higher degree polynomials. Reducing fractions is made easier with help from this page.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Math Lesson Working With Ratios
Did you know that chefs must know how to use ratios in order to prepare meals? Learn the value of understanding how to write ratios, ratio proportionality, and ratios in lowest terms in this interactive lesson. Based on real world...
Other
Project Happy Child: Simplifying Fractions Worksheets
At this location there are three simple stories that explain the basic concept of simplifying fractions or finding their lowest terms. Then there are 12 worksheets that increase in difficulty to help students practice this concept.
Other
Project Happy Child: Fractions and Percents
Miss Walker explains to Bart the fine details of the relationship between fractions and percents. At the end of the discourse is a link, "Free worksheets for percentages," where you can go to print off some practice sheets.
Lesson Tutor
Lesson Tutor: Reducing Fractions
The definition of a fraction begins this site, which then moves to the steps of how to reduce a fraction. What makes two fractions equivalent and how do you correctly move from one to the other? These questions are answered by the use of...
Purple Math
Purplemath: Reducing Fractions
Any number, divided by itself, is just 1. Use this fact when reducing fractions. This resource helps you learn about how to reduce fractions. It has few worked out examples with detailed explanations.
Learning Wave Communications
Learning Wave: Fractions
This resource contains information about fractions and includes ratios, equivalent fractions, basic operations, and reciprocals. Several links for practice problems are also included, along with links to a post and pretest.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Dividing Fractions by Fractions
Students review how to divide fractions by fractions. Practice problems are included.
Visual Fractions
Visual Fractions: Strict Fraction Multiplication With Lines
Use this interactive site from Visual Fractions to multiply fractions. Answers need to be given in lowest terms. Explanations are available for each question, and immediate feedback is provided.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Simplifying Fractions
5th grade lesson explains how to simplify a fraction.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Simplifying Fractions Calculator
Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers in simplest form. This calculator also simplifies proper fractions by reducing to lowest terms and showing the work involved.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Height to Weight Ratio
A student asks Dr. Math, "If I have a friend that weighs 155 pounds and is five feet, four inches tall, what is his height-to-weight ratio?" Find out how Dr. Math solves this problem and get a better understanding of the concept of ratio.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Intro to Rational Expressions
This lesson will introduce you to rational expressions. You will learn how to determine when a rational expression is undefined and how to find its domain.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Reducing to Simplest Form
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students are asked to reduce fractions to their lowest terms. Includes video demonstrating a sample problem [1:00] and a set of practice...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Reducing Simplest Form Word Problems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students must solve word problems where they are asked to reduce fractions to their lowest terms. Includes video demonstrating a sample...
PBS
Pbs: Area Models for Multiplication of Fractions
Use area models to show a visual representation of the product of two fractions. This interactive exercise focuses on multiplying fractions and reducing them when possible.
Cool Math
Coolmath: Coolmath4kids: Simplifying Fractions
Short tutorial explaining how to simplify fractions. Includes sample problems to try.
Teaching Treasures Publications
Teaching Treasures: Year Five Math (Page 5)
Sharpen your computation skills with this interactive worksheet. The focus is adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators and reducing to lowest terms. Problems are set up horizontally and answers can be checked...
Help Algebra
Help algebra.com: Fractions
This resource offers an overview of fractions from several aspects, including simplifying, reduced, mixed numbers and improper form, and basic operations. Examples and diagrams are included to help demonstrate each topic.
Visual Fractions
Visual Fractions: Subtract and Simplify Fractions With Circle Models
Use this interactive site from Visual Fractions to practice subtraction with fractions using circles. You will need to answer the questions with mixed numbers in lowest terms.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Converting Improper Fractions
This lesson demonstrates how to rewrite an improper fraction as a mixed number.
Math Medics
S.o.s. Math: Reducing Fractions
Explains step-by-step how to reduce fractions. Gives examples and exercises to practice this skill.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: How to Determine a Ratio
Learners practice writing ratios in lowest terms. The resource consists of a tutorial and self-check practice problems.