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Lesson 33 Math 4

This document provides a lesson on changing fractions to their lowest terms, including examples of finding the greatest common factor using listing, prime factorization, and continuous division methods. It then has students practice expressing fractions in lowest terms and asks questions to reinforce the concept.

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Lesson 33 Math 4

This document provides a lesson on changing fractions to their lowest terms, including examples of finding the greatest common factor using listing, prime factorization, and continuous division methods. It then has students practice expressing fractions in lowest terms and asks questions to reinforce the concept.

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Changing Fractions to Lesson

Lowest Term 33
Find the prime factors of the following using the
factor tree. Drill

16 28
45 64 72
Give the GCF of the following numbers Review
using the indicated method.
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
12 and 18 16 and 48 12 and 64
(listing method) (factor tree) (continuous division)

Group 4 Group 5
18 and 27 14 and 54
(factor tree)
(listing method)
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household chores Moti-
vation
Pre-
Explore and Discover! senta-
tion

Nhel is helping Edward clean


the backyard. They spend 2 hours
doing this every Saturday
morning.
What part of the day do they
spend cleaning the backyard?
Express your answer in lowest
term.
Perfor-
Encourage pupils to work by pairs. ming the
Activities

A.Click
By icon to add picture
listing Method B.ClickByicondividing
to add picture
the Click icon to add picture
C. By prime
numerator and factorization
denominator by
their GCF.
Factors of 2: 1, 2 2 = 1x2
Factors of 24: 24 1 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 3
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 2 = 2 ÷ 2 =1
12, 24 24 24 2 12 =1
GCF: 2 12
Processing
Ask the following questions: the
Activities

● How did you solve the problem?


● How did you change 2 to lowest term?
24
Reinforcing

Ask the following questions: the Concept


and Skill

Put a check (/) before each item if the given fraction is in its
lowest term and cross (X) if it is not.
____ 1. 3 ____ 4. 3
7 5
____ 2. 2 ____ 5. 4
28 25
____ 3. 8
14
Summari-
Let the pupils generalize as follows: zing the
Lesson

A fraction is in its lowest term if the


numerator and the denominator have no
other common factor except 1.
To reduce a fraction to its lowest
term, divide the numerator and the
denominator by their GCF (Greatest
Common Factor).
Applying to
Group Activities New and
Other
Situations
Group 2
Group 1 A farmer is Group 3
Century is planted 12 of Fill in the box
what part of with the correct
his farm with numerator or
the pechay. How denominator.
Millennium? many thirds of 1. 3 = ___
Express your 4 12
the farm was 2. 4 = ___
answer in planted with 5 15
lowest term. pechay?
Applying to
Group Activities New and
Other
Situations

Group 4 Group 5
Express each fraction Write each fraction in
to its lowest term. lowest term.
1. 4 = 1. 10 =
10 25
2. 3 = 2. 9 =
12 18
Assess-
Express each fraction to its lowest term. ment

1. 8 = 4. 4 =
10 12
2. 9 = 5. 3 =
12 18
3. 6 =
15
Change the following fractions into Home
Activity
lowest term.

1. 8 = 4. 4 =
10 12
2. 9 = 5. 3 =
12 18
3. 6 =
15

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