What’s on the Simplifying Fractions poster
The rule, 4 worked examples.
- Divide the top and the bottom by the same number until nothing except 1 divides into…
- 8/12 ÷ 4/4 = 2/3
- 8/12 = 2/3
- 15/25 = 3/5
- 9/12 = 3/4
- 7/9 = already simplest
Use the greatest common factor and it is one step. Use a smaller factor and it just takes longer.
Questions about the Simplifying Fractions poster
- What’s on the Simplifying Fractions poster?
- The rule, 4 worked examples. Divide the top and the bottom by the same number until nothing except 1 divides into…; 8/12 ÷ 4/4 = 2/3; 8/12 = 2/3; 15/25 = 3/5; 9/12 = 3/4; 7/9 = already simplest. Use the greatest common factor and it is one step. Use a smaller factor and it just takes longer.
- Who is the Simplifying Fractions poster for?
- Simplifying Fractions is filed under 5th Grade (ages 10–11), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting math, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.
- When should you use the Simplifying Fractions poster?
- Point at the rule they need instead of reteaching the whole topic. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Simplifying Fractions belongs on the wall where that math work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Simplifying Fractions?
- Adding Unlike Fractions, Comparing Fractions and Dividing Fractions sit alongside Simplifying Fractions in the 5th Grade set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Adding Unlike FractionsComparing FractionsDividing Fractions
- Is the Simplifying Fractions poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Simplifying Fractions downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the 5th Grade set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Simplifying Fractions poster print at?
- Simplifying Fractions is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Simplifying Fractions loses nothing.Printing guide
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