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3c. FRACTIONS DIVISION Notes & Exercises

The document provides worked examples and explanations of division concepts and rules. It discusses dividing as multiplying by the inverse, no common factor cancellation in division, and examples such as spending 1/5 of money then 1/5 of the remainder totaling £72 to find the original amount. It also has a word problem about squirrels collecting and hiding nuts where Steve ends up eating 56 nuts total.

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3c. FRACTIONS DIVISION Notes & Exercises

The document provides worked examples and explanations of division concepts and rules. It discusses dividing as multiplying by the inverse, no common factor cancellation in division, and examples such as spending 1/5 of money then 1/5 of the remainder totaling £72 to find the original amount. It also has a word problem about squirrels collecting and hiding nuts where Steve ends up eating 56 nuts total.

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……..

And a quarter of something is the same as ….


=

Thoughts on a very early rule for division?


=4x2

Thoughts on a very early rule for division?


Recap
3.
I am going to consider the division sign

as a fraction (which it is!)


What am i actually doing here?
What am i actually doing here?

Simply multiplying by one, so it


is just equivalent (no change!)

Now apply normal rules …


Now what?
Nearly there
Nearly there
Numerator unsimplified
The above proof has just confirmed the technique we shall use for DIVISION

Extra note

The rules for division are exactly like multiplication:

Numerator ➗ Numerator

Denominator ➗ Denominator

BUT why do you think we don’t use this rule?


2 more and check your answers on your calculator.

Check/mark with my model answers on the next slides


STOP! - please check that you are doing the division correctly

No common factors, so no cross-cancelling!

There will be on the next few!!!


Answers
Answers
Worded problems (not necessarily division)

1. Dean spent one fifth of the 2. Three squirrels, Steve, Keith and
amount of money in his Benjamin, have spent all day collecting
wallet and then one fifth of nuts. At the end of the day they are very
what remained. He spent a tired and go to bed. During the night, Steve
total of £72. Find the wakes up and eats a nut. He then decides
amount of money in his to take half of the remaining pile and hides
wallet to start with. it before going back to sleep. Keith then
wakes up. He too is hungry, so eats a nut.
He also takes half of the remaining pile
and hides it before going back to sleep.
Finally, Benjamin wakes up, eats a nut and
hides half of the remaining pile. In the
morning, all of the squirrels share the
remaining nuts equally between them and
each goes off with four more nuts. Each
squirrel then eats all the nuts he now has.
How many nuts has Steve eaten in total?
Answers

1. £200

2. 56

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