My Personal Learning Path

To start my personal learning path off, I wanted to first focus on the topic of fractions. It has been a few years since I have actively practiced fractions in any form, so I thought this would be a great way to refresh my memory, and jump start it to other topics in Math.

Here is the worksheet that I found on education.com. I completed the first 7 problems on the worksheet. I completed this at a 4th grade level.

https://www.education.com/worksheet/article/fraction-math-addition-subtraction-2/ is the link for the worksheet.

This was a lot more difficult then I thought! I forgot what it was like to simplify fractions. I think that is where my biggest struggle was. But after doing this I can say that I am getting better at finding the common divisor, and dividing both numbers by it, and arriving at a simplified final answer.

Here is my work:

1.      2/3 – 1/3 =1/3

First I had to subtract 2-1/3 and that is how I came to my final answer of 1/3

2.      6/12 + 5/12= 11/12

I had to add 6+5 =11/12 and that is the simplified answer as 1 is the greatest common divisor of 11 and 12.

3.      7/16 – 3/16=1/4

First I had to subtract 7-3/16=4/16. Then I had to simplify 4/16 into it’s lowest terms.

( 4 ÷ 4 ) over ( 16 ÷ 4 ) =1/4 Final answer. I arrived at this answer as you can see by diving 4 and 16 by it’s common divisor of 4.

 4.      8/10 – 2/10= 3/5

First I had to subtract 8-2/10= 6/10

Then 6 ÷ 2 and 10 ÷ 2 = 3/5. 2 was the common divisor.

 5.      7/8 + 3/8= 1 ¼

First I had to add 7+3/8=10/8

Then simplify 108 = ( 10 ÷ 2 ) and  ( 8 ÷ 2 ) =5/4

Then I had to convert an improper fraction to a mixed number.

5 ÷ 4 = 1 remainder 1 = 1 ¼

 6.      6/9 – 6/9 =0/9

First subtract 6-6/9=0/9 so final answer is 0.

 7.      4/16 + 4/16=1/2

First add 4+4/16=8/16

Then simplify and 8 is the common divisor of both so 8 ÷ 8 16 ÷ 8 = 1/2