Dividing Mixed Numbers

Middle schoolers solve five word problems where they divide mixed numbers then express the answers in simplest form. This user-friendly worksheet would make an apt homework assignment.

In this dividing mixed numbers worksheet, students divide mixed numbers with unlike denominators and write their quotients in simplest forms. Students solve twenty-two problems.

There are 33 fractions here, and all of them need to be changed...yet stay the same. Scholars convert improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa. Some of the mixed numbers require canceling, which the example demonstrates well....

In this dividing mixed numbers worksheet, students solve 12 fill in the blank and 1 word problem where they divide mixed numbers in order to find the quotient. Students express each quotient in its simplest form. An example of how to...

In this dividing mixed numbers activity, students rewrite mixed number division expressions as multiplication expressions, write quotients in simplest forms, and rewrite fractions in simplest forms. Students solve thirty-eight problems.

Here is a great video explaining how to multiply a fraction by a whole number. Sal shows students how to put a whole number over 1 in order to multiply it by a fraction. He simplifies his answer and writes it as a mixed number.

Teach the process of multiplying and dividing mixed numbers with a video lesson. The tutorial shows how to multiply and divide these fractions by first converting to improper fractions. After working through two multiplication problems,...

This video on changing improper fractions to mixed numbers would nicely compliment the Khan Academy video on writing mixed numbers as improper fractions. Sal first shows students how to convert improper fractions. Then, he uses drawings...

Adding mixed numbers with unlike denominators is a tricky process. This presentations does an excellent job of outlining the steps necessary in great detail. By the time you've worked through this 33-slide PowerPoint with your students,...

When the numerator is larger than the denominator in a fraction then it is called an improper fraction. This improper fraction can be changed to a mixed fraction where there is a whole number and a fraction together. Just divide the...