Name: Fractions in context
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T17:37:09.000Z
Duration: 4 min 29 s
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we're going to think about how fractions can be used

So here we're told that on the Sharks dive team

There are eight total divers on the team.

What fraction of Sharks dive team is in third grade?

So pause this video and see if you can figure that out.

there are eight total divers on the team.

I'll try to make it look kind of like a diver,

so that's not quite a circle but you get the idea,

it looks like something kind of diving down.

So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight.

Now if we were to talk about just one diver here,

just like that, that would be one out of the eight.

I could say this is an eighth, an eighth,

or I could say that this is equal to 1/8.

This is one of the eight members of our dive team.

Now they tell us that there are three divers in third grade,

what fraction of Sharks dive team is in third grade?

So if you wanted to represent that as a fraction

three, instead of having it three over eight,

where you'd pick one of the correct choice,

but you could represent the fraction of Sharks dive team

that is in third grade either as three over eight, 3/8,

or three and then spell out the word eighths.

He made clay animals out of three of the parts.

What fraction of the clay did Yuma use to make clay animals?

So one again, pause this video, and think about it.

And so let's say he divides it like this.

And let's say that I've divided it into four equal parts,

that these all have the exact amount of clay in it,

it's hand drawn so it's not going to be perfect

the way I drew it but let's assume they all have

he was able to make a clay animal out of,

this part right over here, he made a clay animal out of,

So what would you call each of the equal parts?

So if I were to just focus on that right over there,

You could also represent it as one fourth, like that,

That's if you were to just circle one of these equal parts,

that one, or that one, or that one, or that one.

Now if you're talking about all of his clay,

Well you could view it as four fourths, four fourths,

or four over four, this would also be read four fourths.

Now if you wanted to say what fraction of the clay

so three fourths were used to make clay animals.

You could also write that as 3/4 like this.

Three out of the four equal sections of clay

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