Fraction
What is it?
A fraction is a way to represent a part of a whole
What place is the numerator?
Top number in a fraction
Is the denominator on the top or bottom?
Bottom
What is it?
Circle the numbers
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Box the Keywords
Evaluate
Solve
What is the first step when multiplying fractions?
Multiply the numerators
If the fraction 2/5, if we change the numerator to 4, what is the new fraction?
4/5
What is the denominator is the fraction 5/6?
6
This step in CUBES helps you quickly identify all the numbers in a problem by marking them.
Circle the numbers
What is 4/8 in its simplest form?
1/2 (one half)
If you have a pizza and 5 out of 8 slices of pizza are eaten, what is the numerator?
5
If the denominator in 7/9 changes to 18, but the numerator stays the same, what is the new fraction?
7/18
Why is CUBES important?
**Multiple answers allowed
It helps you break down the word problem into smaller, more manageable steps!
If I use the word "of" in a word problem, what will I be doing?
Multiplying
True or False: The numerator in a fraction tells us the total number of equal parts the whole is divided into.
False (The numerator tells us how many parts we have, while the denominator tells us the total number of equal parts the whole is divided into.)
When adding fractions with different denominators, you must first find this
Find the Common Denominator
When following CUBES, if you skip this step, you might use the wrong operation because you missed an important math term
Box the Keyword
This is the term for a fraction where the numerator is greater than or equal to the denominator.
Improper Fraction
In a proper fraction, this part of the fraction is always smaller than the denominator.
Numerator
The denominator of any fraction cannot be this number.
ZERO
A student circled the numbers in a word problem but still got the wrong answer. This means they likely failed to do this crucial CUBES step.
Underline the question