Fraction Essays

  • Fraction Differences

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    Fraction Differences First Sequence To begin with I looked at the first sequence of fractions to discover the formula that explained it. As all the numerators were 1 I looked at the denominators. As these all increased by 1 every time, I figured that the formula was simply [IMAGE] as the denominators corresponded to the implied first line as shown in this table below: nth number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Denominators 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 I shall

  • Are You Multiply Better Fractions

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    1. How do you multiply proper fractions? How do you multiply mixed numbers? 2. How do you divide proper fractions? How do you divide improper fractions? 3. Give an example of how/when you use fractions (including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and or ordering of) in your day to day activities outside of math class. Multiplying proper fractions requires a few steps. The first step will be to multiply the top two numbers also known as the numerators. Second you will multiply the

  • Book Review: The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod

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    The first part of this review does not contain spoilers. Ken MacLeod's The Star Fraction is a fantasic science fiction novel about love, loss, socialism, anarcho-capitalism, "American-style ‘black helicopter’ libertarianism", and the looming threat of a fascistic world order. The Star Fraction's setting is post World War III UK, where the republican government has been overthrown by the monarchy, and a new kingdom has been established. After many failed violent revolutions to over throw the monarch

  • Finding The Common Denominator

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    In everyday life, we interact with fractions multiple times throughout the day. Whether it is the amount of gas left in a tank, how much flour we need to measure out in a recipe or even how much money we have used up. There is a major importance for students to have the ability to understand and compare fractions. The lesson I have developed will help students be able to convert and compare fractions that have different denominators. I included three separate methods that will help students do so:

  • Teaching Measurement and Fractions

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    possess conceptual understanding of fractions even after they have had the opportunity to study about them for several years. Because these students lack this understanding they are limited in their ability to solve problems with fractions and to learn and apply mathematical procedures that include fractions. This is supported by Yanik, Helding, and Baek (2006) who report that students’ understanding of fractions reflect that most struggle with conceptualizing fractions, and that this is true not just

  • Ancient Egyptian Mathematics

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    dividing units of time such as sixty like we still use today for hours and minutes. They used “formal” math as far back as 3000 B.C., but basic math can be dated as far back as 2690 C.A. They are also believed to be the first to use fractions, although they wrote their fractions differently than we do today. Their mathematics had an emphasis on measurement and calculations. With their vast knowledge in geometry they were able to calculate the areas of triangles, bricks, trapezoids and pyramids. The Egyptians

  • Case Study: Fraction Friction

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    Introduction Fraction Friction is the title of this series of lesson designed for year seven students. It will build on previous basic knowledge of fractions and consider more advanced thinking including algebraic thinking and computation. Fractions have always represented considerable challenges for students and a lack of understanding is then translated into difficulties with fraction computation, decimals and percentage concepts and the use of fractions in other areas especially algebra. (NMP

  • Math In Ancient Egypt

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    of math. The Reason for Math The Egyptians used math very heavily in their daily life. Since the Egyptians at that time had no money, participating in trade and market required knowledge of fractions. Since the Egyptians need the most precise calculations, they only used unit fractions, aside from the fraction 2/3. Because they didn’t round off their numbers, the closest possible answer was produced. Another peril of life in Egypt that was solved by math was the need for a calendar. Since the Nile

  • The history of Fractions: Music and Mathematics

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    some may love (I, the latter)--disco music! With a focus on music production, I must protect, justify, and enlighten myself on all things music, as well as others, and edify all within reasonable distance on the correlation of fractions and music, and just how a fraction, also known as a time signature when written on a music staff, has been responsible for the swing and groove of music, and the creation of an evolution of soulful dance music. You may ask yourself, or someone who was actually alive

  • Chronic Heart Failure Summary

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    Heart failure (HF) is a complex clinical pathological syndrome characterised by symptom of shortness of breath , fatigue and the sign of rales on chest ascultation and peripheral pitting oedema also termed as sign of congestion. It is caused by the structural and functional diffect of the heart(1) . It is initally characterised by the dysfunction of the levt ventricle which lead to impairing the filling functin of the ventricles or unable to produce enough contractility of the left ventricle

  • Mesopotamian Algebra

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    9. In what sense did the Mesopotamian authors “do algebra”? Did they have the concept of an equation or a classification of types of equations? The Mesopotamian authors didn’t “do algebra,” they solved problems by following a set of steps which allowed them to get a numerical answer. Today, if we tried to solve those problems, we would use algebra, but they did not (Cooke, 2005, p. 40). They had no concept of an equation, or of a set of rules that would allow them to solve a variety of problems

  • Corlanor Case Study

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    whether heart failure patents would benefit from using this drug. Corlanor use is indicated to reduce the risk of hospitalization for worsening heart failure in patients with stable, symptomatic chronic heart failure with left ventricular ejection fraction ≤ 35%, who are in sinus rhythm with resting heart rate ≥ 70 beats per minute and either are on maximally tolerated doses of betablockers or have a contraindication to beta-blocker use. The recommended starting dose of Corlanor is 5 mg twice daily

  • What´s Dilated Cardiomyopathy?

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    which is described by the Frank-Starling mechanism. However, as the disease progresses, the heart loses that compensatory mechanism leading to a decrease in the strength of the contraction of the heart, hence, a decrease in left ventricular ejection fraction. There are two types of DCM, primary and secondary. Primary dilated cardiomyopathy are usually idiopathic in nature, however, “approximately 30% of cases” have a “familial transmission pattern.”3(138) Secondary dilated cardiomyopathy, on the other

  • Golden Ratio Vs Rule Of Third

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    I’d like to talk about the “Golden Ratio” and “The rule of Third”, They are very famous in the world and always use in the building , art and photograph,etc.They have lots of value in the world, although someone has a different opinion. Because of people have different arguments, the “Golden ratio” and “the rule of thirds” can become more complete . The “Golden Ratio” can be described as a complex mathematical formula.The Golden Ratio is a special number which be found from division line into

  • Evaluating Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics

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    relating to fractions. In question one, students had to show how to make equivalent fractions using a number line, and an area model. The quantitative patterns for question one revealed how all 22 student in the class excelled in this particular area. All of the 22 students tested got answer one correct, therefore this informs me that students grasp this concept and that the visual of an area model may have

  • Distillation Of Cyclohexane And Toluene Lab Report

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    For the first fraction, it was collected at temperatures between 79oC and 95oC. Based on the boiling point of Cyclohexane being 80.7oC and the boiling point of Toluene being 111oC, the first fraction should have been almost completely composed of Cyclohexane. The second fraction was collected at temperatures between 95oC and 100oC and should have been mostly composed of Toluene because the majority of the Cyclohexane should have been in the first fraction. Since the residual liquid was

  • Gas Chromatography Lab

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    This vial was named “Fraction 1.” The hot plate temperature was increased a little more to increase the thermometer temperature in the Hickman still. .6mL of distillate was collected, using the same bent pipette, and put into another .5-dram vial named “Fraction 2.” The hot plate was turned off, and everything was left to cool for a little bit. After it cooled, around 1.2 mL of clear liquid was left in the original vial and transferred to another vial named “Fraction 3.” The syringe for gas

  • Algebraic Expressions In Chapters 6-9 (CPA)

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    topics more. Some of these concepts we learned throughout the year were things such as dividing fractions, algebraic expressions, statistical data, distance, rate, and time, volume, and percents were all the topics we studied in these chapters. Dividing fractions are similar to portions of portions. You can divide fractions by just flipping the numerator and denominator of the second fraction and then multiplying straight across, but why does this work? This works because division and multiplication

  • Chloroplast Experiment Essay

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    For part one of the experiment, my team asked the question of which cell fraction of the measured pea seedlings will have a higher ratio of chloroplasts? My group tested for the activity of chloroplasts with three different pairs of cell fractions by two conditions of light and dark in three readings. The first two cell fractions, pellet one and two (P1, P2), are the hard sediments found at the bottom of a tube after it has been centrifuged (which are specimen, like the mitochondria and chloroplast

  • Colorimetric Determination for the Composition and Equilibrium Constant For the Formation of a Metal Complex Ion

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    observing its colorimetric characteristics. The reaction was done for differing amounts of Fe+3 and SCN-, and the absorbance was measured using a spectrophotometer. The absorbance showed that maximum Fe(SCN)+2 ion production was achieved when the mole fraction of SCN was .6, which was close to the expected value of .5. However, when the equilibrium constant was calculated for this reaction, experimental error may have played a role when the achieved value of -660 was significantly different than an expected