Fractions

In MTH1W we were working on doing BEDMAS questions with fractions, and my students had had enough halfway through the period. They asked to do something else, or to have a “fun Friday”.

I pulled the question from our math club for grownups.

We extended the pattern, and wrote the fractions in improper form.

One group got excited about exploring these fractions as percents, and others were keen to use my prompt of “use the numerator and denominator as legs of right triangles” to explore and practice Pythagorean Theorem calculations.

I’m glad they knew to ask for something different to work on. This was a much more fun way to end out the week.