This video addresses Common Core Grade 3 Standard Number & Operations - Fractions: Develop understanding of fractions as numbers. We will help you and your child understand a fraction as a number ...

(Get it? ratio-nal.) And ratios are the same thing as fractions. So: It’s also the case that any finite decimal number, no matter how long, can be expressed as the ratio of two integers.

When you're multiplying fractions by an integer (or a whole number) you multiply the numerator of the fraction by the whole number, whilst the denominator of the fraction stays the same.

You can convert the mixed number into an improper fraction. An improper fraction has a numerator greater than its denominator. The other way is to use partitioning, which means multiplying the ...