Monday, November 11, 2013

WALT find a fraction of a fraction

What is a 1/4 of a 1/4?
We took a quarter and divided it into 4 equal segments.

If we divided all of the quarters into 4 segments we would have 16 segments.
So 1/4 of 1/4 = 1/16

We noticed that 1 x 1 = 1
                         4 x 4 = 16
So 1/4 x 1/4 = 1/16

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