SS 4.4 Lesson

SS 4.4 Lesson

Common fractions: Converting improper fractions to mixed numbers

Open Ended

What GLOs should you demonstrate while listening to the lesson and doing your work?

How can you show these GLOs?

Answer

You should demonstrate:

GLO #3: Complex thinker. If you have trouble with something, be a complex thinker and use what you know to figure it out.

GLO #4: Quality producer. When you complete your work, it should be 5th grade quality.

GLO #5: Effective Communicator. When someone is talking, you should listen. When you talk, make sure people can understand what you're saying. When you type, try to type in complete sentences.

Multiple Choice

What is an improper fraction?

• A fraction where the numerator is less than the denominator.

• A fraction where the numerator is greater than the denominator

Multiple Choice

What is a mixed number?

• A number that only has a fraction.

• A number that has a whole number and a fraction (numerator is greater than denominator).

• A number that has a whole number and a fraction (numerator is less than denominator).

Open Ended

What is the difference between an improper fraction and a mixed number?

Answer

An improper fraction is just a fraction, but the numerator is greater than the denominator.

An improper fraction has a fraction, but it also has a whole number.

Open Ended

What does the word convert mean when we're talking about fractions?

Answer

It means to change the form.

For example, if we convert an improper fraction to a mixed number, we are changing a fraction where the numerator is greater than the denominator, to a number that has a whole number AND a fraction (where the numerator is less than the denominator).

Open Ended

Why do you think it's important to learn about improper fractions?

It's important to learn about improper fractions because fractions will not always come out to be "normal." Knowing how to deal with and work with improper fractions will help you whenever you need to do work with improper fractions.

Open Ended

Why do you think we should learn how to convert an improper fraction into a mixed number?

Learning how to convert an improper fraction into a mixed number can help you when you need to do the opposite (convert a mixed number into an improper fraction).

It can also help you when you do word problems that require you to convert an improper fraction to a mixed number.

Open Ended

What are some real life situations where you might need to convert an improper fraction into a mixed number?

Examples

• If a recipe calls for 3/2 cups of sugar and you have trouble with that number, you can convert it to a mixed number (1 1/2 cups of sugar)

• If you cut 2 pizzas into 4 slices and ate only one slice, how many slices are left? There would be 7/4 slices left. In order to make 7/4 make more sense, you would convert it into a mixed number (1 3/4).

Open Ended

What could you do to convert an improper fraction to a mixed number?

Strategies

You could:

Draw a picture

Divide the numerator by the denominator

Open Ended

What is this word problem asking you to figure out?

Answer

How many cups of sugar Brianna needs to make 5 batches of pancakes.

Open Ended

What strategy could you use to figure out this problem?

Answer

Draw a picture

Divide the numerator by the denominator

Multiple Choice

How many times should we split up this rectangle to match the word problem?

• 2

• 4

• 5

• 3

Multiple Choice

How many equal parts are in one whole?

• 4

• 3

• 1

• 2

Multiple Choice

How many wholes do you see?

• 1

• 2

Open Ended

What number do we put for the denominator?

Open Ended

What number do we put for the numerator?

Open Ended

What would be our whole number?

Multiple Choice

5/3 as a mixed number is:

• 1 1/3

• 1 4/3

• 1 3/3

• 1 2/3

Directions

Draw a picture to show 7/4 with the bars and convert it to a mixed number.

Open Ended

What is 7/4 as a mixed number?

Answer

7/4 as a mixed number is 1 3/4