Operations with Fractions

Comic of the Day

Indiana Jones and the Golden Idol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ920fat50M

Warm Up
Simplify the fraction 24/60 (i.e. reduce to lowest terms)
Convert 24/60 to a decimal and to a percent

Announcements
MyMathLab Help Session 1 (Hosted by Kerry Lyn Heberling)

Fri Jan 11, 11:15-12:10, Room J-208

MyMathLab Help Session 2 (Hosted by Mark Schneider)

Mon Jan 14, 11:15-12:10, Room J-210
Next quiz (in MyMathLab) opens Tue, Jan 15 at 9:00am, closes Wed, Jan 16 at 23:59

Next unit exam (in class) Thu, Jan 17

Today - Operations on Fractions
Fraction Blocks
http://www.mathplayground.com/visual_fractions.html
http://www.mathplayground.com/Scale_Fractions.html
Fraction Addition (java required)
http://www.geogebratube.org/student/m5521
Notes p. 9-12
Homework - MyMathLab Unit 1 - #27-70

Tomorrow - Calculator Input, Rounding, Solve Basic Equations
Notes p. 13-18

For more information
http://patrickjmt.com/fractions-adding-and-subtracting-fractions-with-different-denominators/
http://patrickjmt.com/fractions-%E2%80%93-multiplying-and-dividing/
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/multiplying_and_dividing_frac/v/multiplying-fractions
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/multiplying_and_dividing_frac/v/dividing-fractions
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/Adding_and_subtracting_fractions/v/adding-fractions-with-unlike-denominators
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/Adding_and_subtracting_fractions/v/adding-and-subtracting-fractions