The common mistake number five is that students often flip the denominator or multiply by the reciprocal too early. Let me go ahead and show you the mistake that you look at a complex fraction and say ...

Speaker 1: To get a fraction we need to divide a whole number into parts. In this case I've divided by four to create quarters. Speaker 1: Dividing it into equal parts allows me to create a uniformed ...

In a program like Excel, which is designed to handle numbers, you'd expect to be able to use fractions without any hiccups.

When subtracting mixed numbers, you can use a similar method to subtracting two fractions, but this time you have to subtract whole numbers as well. Remember, a mixed number is a combination of an ...