Daily Archives: November 19, 2009

Its back! Yayyyy!!!

So…I am currently teaching multiplying fractions and mixed numbers to my upper level sixth graders. We teach how to multiply fractions with a Hershey chocolate bar, and we teach how to multiply mixed numbers with a cookie recipe that we enlarge 2  1/2 times. They actually bring the ingredients and we mix it up and I bring them cookies the next day. (I do not deserve credit for thinking of this, the teachers at my school did this before I got there.) So here are some problems for you…

1.       3/4  x    5/6 =

Get the answer and also tell me if you remembered anything special you could do to make it easier.

2.     5     1/3     x         7      1/2   =

Get the answer and tell me how you did it.