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4th grade
Course: 4th grade > Unit 7
Lesson 1: Equivalent fractions- Equivalent fractions and comparing fractions: FAQ
- Equivalent fractions with models
- Equivalent fractions (fraction models)
- Equivalent fractions on number lines
- Equivalent fractions (number lines)
- Visualizing equivalent fractions review
- Equivalent fractions
- More on equivalent fractions
- Equivalent fractions
- Equivalent fractions and different wholes
- Comparing fractions of different wholes
- Fractions of different wholes
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Equivalent fractions and different wholes
Sal shows that two fractions are equivalent only if they refer to the same whole.
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- Would mixed numbers be equivalent too.(43 votes)
- It depends on if you do the formula correctly(16 votes)
- How can you ever know that any fractions are equivalent when you only see numbers, but not the size of the whole?(16 votes)
- would 16/32 be equivalent to 1/2 too?(14 votes)
- That is correct! Dividing 16 by 16 produces 1, dividing 32 by 16 produces 2, therefore 16/32 = 1/2(14 votes)
- hi how are you doing?(13 votes)
- so if the shape is larger than the other its not equive?(14 votes)
- you got that right(4 votes)
- How can I find the numerator to a fraction so I can make it equal to a fraction with a different denominator in an easier way? Such as: 3/6 is equal to ?/2(8 votes)
- First see if both the numerator and the denominator are divisible by the same number. Then divide the numerator and the denominator by that number. The new fraction is the equivalent fraction of the previous fraction.
Your eg: 3/6 = ?/2
3 and 6 are divisible by 3. So divide both the numerator(3) and denominator(6) by 3.Then you get the numerator 1 and denominator 2. So the final is 1/2(7 votes)
- Im a grade 5 doing grade 4 math what(8 votes)
- Im in grade 8-9 doing 4th grade math so ya. that uh... thats swell. Stay strong lad/lassie.(5 votes)
- This is absalutly correct(9 votes)
- Maybe if they are equiviolent then they may be mixed.(9 votes)
- and 0:14both say the same thing. Is that supposed to happen?? 0:16(8 votes)
- So if you check the transscript, its telling you the answer around 14 and the work behind it on 16.(2 votes)
Video transcript
- [Voiceover] If I were to
give you the fraction 1/3, I could rewrite it. If I multiply both the numerator
and the denominator by two, one times two is two, and
three times two is six. So we know that 1/3 is
the same thing as 2/6. This is true, 1/3 is just
another way of saying 2/6. Now given that we know that, which of these, I guess you could say, picture equations actually
show us that that is true? Show that to us visually? We could start with this first one. We have three equal sections, so each of these sections are 1/3. And we have one of those 1/3 shaded in. If we go on the right side,
we have six equal sections, so it's divided into 1/6, and
we have two of them shaded in. One, two. And the important thing
to realize, is over here, we divided the same rectangle to the 1/3 as we divided into 1/6 over here. We are comparing fractions
of the same whole. So you see that if you were to
take these two magenta boxes and put them together, they
actually do have the same area as this one larger rectangle. So this one looks like a
good picture explanation or a visual explanation for
why 1/3 is equal to 2/6. You take the same rectangle,
divide it into 1/3 and take one of them, and
then you take that same exact rectangle, divide it into
1/6 and pick two of them, you have shaded in the same amount. 1/3 over here is the same thing as 2/6 over here. The important thing to
realize is that you're taking 1/3 and 2/6 of the exact same rectangle. When you look over at these figures, you see that this is 1/3 of
this figure right over here. It's split into three equal sections, and this is one of them that's shaded in. And this is, right over here, 2/6. You have six equal sections and
we've shaded in two of them. And we know that 1/3 is equal to 2/6, but this picture isn't true. This shaded area right over here is less than this shaded area over here. So you say, "Why doesn't it work? "Why isn't this 1/3
the same thing as 2/6?" Because you're taking 2/6
of a larger hexagon here. Here, you're taking 1/3
of a smaller figure. Here, you're taking
2/6 of a larger figure. You can't compare fractions
of different wholes. 2/6 of a larger whole
is going to be larger than 1/3 of a smaller whole. The only time that 1/3 and
2/6 are going to be equivalent is if they are of the same
whole, like we saw up here. So this is not true. And for the same reason,
this right over here is 1/3 and this over here is 2/6. This is 1/3 of a smaller
circle than this 2/6 is. So this is not true. By that same logic, we have
these other pictures over here. And over here, we're not
talking about 1/3 and 2/6. Here, we're talking about,
let's see, splitting something into one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight. So we're talking about
1/8, and in this case, it's one, two, three,
four, five, six, 6/8, and we're comparing it,
let's see over here, they're dividing into four
and they've shaded in three. Now it is true that 6/8 is equal to 3/4. Six divided by two is three. Eight divided by two is four. So if you multiply or divide
the numerator by the exact same thing, then you're going
to get an equivalent fraction. Now 6/8 is equal to 3/4,
but this picture isn't true because 6/8 would be equal to 3/4 if you're talking about taking 6/8 and 3/4 of the same size, in this case, diamond. These things are not the same size, so you can't make this picture statement. Same thing for this one over here. These circles are of different sizes. So taking the same fraction
of different sizes, you can't say that
they're going to be equal. This last one, you're taking the fractions of the same whole. It's kind of this weird
left-pointing arrow-looking shape, but they are the same shape. And you see here, we've
divided that shape into 1/8, and we have shaded in six of them. One, two, let me do that in
a yellow so you can see it. One, two, three, four, five, six. Over here, we have divided it into 1/4, and we have shaded in three of them. So this statement is true. We already knew that 6/8
and 3/4 are the same thing, but this picture right over
here visually shows us that, because we're taking 6/8 of the same whole as we're taking 3/4 of
it, and you see that here. This area, let me shade
it in a different color. So the area that I'm shading in, six of these triangles with equal area is the same thing as three of these parallelograms,
or three of the four. These have the same
area, you could see that. One of these, like that
one right over there, could be equivalent to this over here, equivalent to that over there. Actually, let me do that for all of them. This one over here could be equivalent to, let's see, if you were to flip it
over, it would be equivalent to that over there. And finally, I think you
see where this is going, this one over here is equivalent to this one over here. So we have the same fraction shaded in. We just divided the one on the
left into more equal pieces than we did on the right but
these are equivalent fractions. And this picture shows us that
6/8 is, indeed, equal to 3/4. Once again, 6/8 of the same whole is equal to 3/4 of that same whole.