Multiply Mixed Numbers by Converting into Improper Fractions

What is the first step to making this mixed number into an improper fraction?

• add the denominator by the whole number

• multiply the numerator by the denominator

• multiply the denominator by the whole number

• add the numerator to the denominator

What is the first step to making this mixed number into an improper fraction?

• after multiplying the numerator with the whole number you add the denominator

• after multiplying the denominator with the whole number you add the numerator

What do you do to get from step 1 to step 2?

• multiply the mixed fractions

• find a common denominator for both mixed fractions

• turn the mixed numbers into proper fractions

• turn the mixed numbers into improper fractions

Tags

CCSS.3.NF.A.1

CCSS.3.NF.A.2B

What do you do to get from step 2 to step 3?

• multiply the numerators with the numerators and the denominators with the denominators

• find the least common multiple for the denominator of the improper fractions

• add the numerators of the improper fractions, but keep the denominators the same

Tags

CCSS.5.NF.B.6

What do you do to get from step 3 to step 4?

• turn the proper fraction into an improper fraction

• turn the improper fraction into a mixed number

• turn the improper fraction into a proper fraction

What needed to be done to get the final answer in step 4?

• nothing needed to be done

• the mixed number needed to be turned back into an improper fraction

• the mixed number needed to be simplified

Tags

CCSS.5.NF.A.1

CCSS.5.NF.A.2