Fractions refresher class

Watch the 20-minute video below to brush up on fractions for this fall

Watch this video to hear this quick but profound story

TRANSCRIPT

Hey Aurora here with supercharged math are your kids struggling with fractions and you know they could be doing so much better I'm actually about to take you into a class that I just recently gave where we took kids who had never seen fractions before and in 20 minutes the kids were able to add subtract and multiply those fractions reduce those fractions and really have a solid understanding of what fractions were and it didn't take that much effort so let's go into the class and get started if you

like this and you want more you want to go to my website superchargedmath.com to learn more about how York students can be part of my classes that I have for grades fourth all the way through eighth all right let's dive into that class right now so fractions and you see where it says fractions at the very top okay so fractions are part of a whole I want you to write the word whole in here okay fractions are part of a whole okay what does that mean so we have a fraction here we have one number a line

and another number the one on the bottom this is how many make a hole so if I have four of them then I have a whole a whole unit and it could be a whole of anything right it could be a batch of muffins it could be how many cakes fit into your car that would be a whole unit right three is how many we have how many we have okay I am doing this with Sharpie not pencil so it will show up better on the video you should be using pencil when you do your notes and when you do math in general always a good

idea okay all right so if I'm saying four makes a hole look at this one two three four so this unit this circle with the little crosshairs in it that is a hole if I say I've got three quarters of a circle what does that mean that means I've divided my circle into four parts and I've got one two three okay so three is shaded out of four does it have to be a circle or a pizza no it doesn't it could be one of these it could be a candy bar you guys like candy bars so imagine you've got one you slice

it into four the important part here is that the size of the divisions is equal for each one you can't have a giant piece and a tiny piece right imagine doing that with a kid yeah they're gonna they're not gonna be too happy right so all of your divisions have to be the same shape and same size they have to have the same amount of stuff so I can take my candy bar and split it into fours three quarters is going to be one two and three okay I can shade this is how many we have I ate three out of how

many how many possible is on the bottom that's how many make a whole one two three four this makes one candy bar I split it into four even equal pieces and I eat three of them okay so I ate three quarters and now I'm not feeling so good how are we doing so far okay so let's take this a little bit further do you see the pictures on the bottom here okay so let's take a look we're gonna color our own but before you start doing that because you're gonna your fractions will be different than

mine I want you to go like this can you put a line under each one can you go like this okay so what I want you to do is this on the bottom remember this is how many make a whole I want you to count them up this one is one two that's the bottom number also known as your denominator okay denominator is like a dungeon it's on the bottom okay so there's two possible now what about this one there's four possible right one two three four just like we had up here right four possible so you're going to write

that at the bottom okay what about this one how many are in here so when when we get to these sometimes it's a little hard to count them so just start with a DOT one two three just put dots in it see six okay I have six so that's six possible so six slices make one whole pizza right all right what about this one how many are in here can you count them with me one two three four oh I'm only counting four and notice that's a half if I take four twice five six seven eight I get eight right

so there are eight slices that make a whole unit so this here is just one over eight so this is in eighths this is in six uh it's so the number six with a th update how many are in here there's a lot to count so start with a DOT and then go all the way around and tell me how many do you have just shout it out when you know it okay ten there's more than ten Amanda so what do you have yeah 12 that's right there are 12 here so 12 make a whole all right so now I want you to shade in

as many as you want so for this one let's just shade in one because otherwise we've got the whole there we go so that's one half all right so shade in other amounts go ahead and do it I'll give you just a second and they don't have to be side by side they can be so okay and however many you shade in goes on the top do you see that okay so go ahead and shade a few of them in you don't have to do them all just shade in the ones that you want okay it doesn't have to be the same as

mine you just make your own make your own fractions all right so we got one two I'm only gonna do three on this one how many are you doing okay maybe I'll use purple again one two three four five okay all right so you want something that looks like mine in that you've shaded it and the number that you uh that you the number of sections you shaded is the same number that's on top so do you have that okay so go ahead and finish that up yeah don't spend all day on this we got a lot to do okay I want you to notice something all right let's take uh let's look at the eight since I had highlighted that one what would happen if you had gone in here and shaded all of them what imagine I did all of them okay I'm gonna write that one down here okay so the original was three but now I'm gonna I'm gonna do a different one okay eight is still on the bottom that doesn't change but what's on the top well I shaded all of them so that I gotta put an eight on the top anytime you have a number over itself... (continued in video)

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