FUNNY & FABULOUS FRACTION STORIES 30 Reproducible Math Tales and Problems To Reinforce Important Fraction Skills

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CONTENTS HOW TO USE THIS BOOK. . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE BASICS Skill 1: Picturing Fractions Martha Crunch, Personal Fractions Trainer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Skill 2: Recognizing Fractions Great Artists of the World Draw Fractions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Skill 3: Drawing and Identifying Fractions The History of Fractions: A Play . . . . 13 Skill 4: Comparing Fractions Dear Ms. Fraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Skill 5: Equivalent Fractions Louie Lewis, Fractional Private Eye . . 18 Skill 6: Introduction To Simplest Form Martha and Steve: Simplest Form. . . 20 Skill 7: Improper Fractions and Mixed Numbers Joe Trella, Fraction Fella . . . . . . . . . . 22 Skill 8: Practice Simplest Form Never More, Baltimore! . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Skill Review Ultra Workout 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 ADDING AND SUBTRACTING FRACTIONS Skill 9: Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Like Denominators Rex Roper’s Believe It or Not! . . . . . . 28 Skill 10: Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers with Like Denominators Texarkana Bernstein: The World’s Greatest Adventurer and Her Trusty Dog, Woovis (Episode 1) . . . . . . . . . . 31 Skill 11: Least Common Denominators Officer Meg O’Malley of the Fraction Police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Skill 12: Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators Martha’s Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Skill 13: Adding Mixed Numbers with Unlike Denominators Texarkana Bernstein: The World’s Greatest Adventurer and Her Trusty Dog, Woovis (Episode 2) . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Skill 14: Subtracting Mixed Numbers with Unlike Denominators Billy Doogan, Roving Weather Man . . 43 Skill Review Ultra Workout, Too! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

MULTIPLYING AND DIVIDING FRACTIONS Skill 15: Multiplying Fractions by Whole Numbers Emily Taproot, Fractional Poet . . . . . 47 Skill 16: Multiplying Fractions The Frackie Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Skill 17: Reciprocals Emily Taproot’s Winky-Tinky Tigglesworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Skill 18: Dividing Fractions Louie Lewis: The Case of the Flipping Fractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Skill 19: Multiplying And Dividing Mixed Numbers Officer Meg O’Malley: Episode 2 . . . . 56 Skill 20: Multiplying and Dividing Mixed Numbers Yucky Cooking with Mr. Pierre . . . . . 58 Skill 21: Multiplying and Dividing Fractions Martha Crunch and Her Amazing Fraction Workout Video . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Skill Review Ultra Workout 3!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 USING FRACTIONS Skill 22: Multiplying Probabilities The Critics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Skill 23: Ratios Arnold Guck: Man or Myth? . . . . . . . 65 Skill 24: Equivalent Fractions and Decimals Enid The Magnificent, Part 1. . . . . . . 68 Skill 25: Equivalent Fractions and Decimals Enid the Magnificent, Part 2: Enid Does the Unthinkable . . . . . . . . 70 Skill 26: Fraction Number Sense Name That Fraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Skill 27: Multiplication, Division and Addition Martha’s Brain Game. . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 TEST 1: THE ULTIMATE FRACTION WORKOUT, PART ONE . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 TEST 2: THE ULTIMATE FRACTION WORKOUT, PART TWO . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 ANSWERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82