I honestly don't understand the purpose in making children know them: all calculators of any worth have a fraction key, all cellphones of any worth have a calculator and 90% of everyone has a cell phone.
Although what my 8th grade math teacher said about fractions that really made them click for me was this: The bar in-between the top and bottom number actually translates to "top number divided by bottom number" (he was very good about translating Mathese into English for things like that.)
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Date: 4/15/09 07:27 pm (UTC)I honestly don't understand the purpose in making children know them: all calculators of any worth have a fraction key, all cellphones of any worth have a calculator and 90% of everyone has a cell phone.
Although what my 8th grade math teacher said about fractions that really made them click for me was this: The bar in-between the top and bottom number actually translates to "top number divided by bottom number" (he was very good about translating Mathese into English for things like that.)