Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Mariya's Scribe

today, we learned about adding fractions.
mr harbeck showed us how to add fractions with an example. our example was 4/5 + 8/15. we knew that 4/5 + 8/15 didnt equal to 12/20. so, what we did was find a common denominator. so, 4/5 became 12/15. what we did to get 12/15 was that we multiplied 4/5 by 3. now, we can add the two fractions. so, 12/15 + 8/15 added up to 20/15. 20/15 is an unpropper fraction so we changed it to 1 5/15 or simplified it to 1 1/3.





today, we also did another investigation. in today's investigation, we are doing a problem in two places in Brooklyn, Carrol Garden and Flatbush. what we know about the two places is that the community wants to build a park for their neighbourhood and both of their space for the park is 50 m by 100 m.
In Carrol Garden's, 3/4 of the lot is devoted to a playground and 2/5 of the playground is blacktop.
In Flatbush, 2/5 of the lot is devoted to a playground and 3/4 of the playground is blacktop.

these are our questions.
- is one neighbourhood getting more blacktop than the other?
- is there more blacktop space in one lot than in the other lot ?
- how would you convince the people in the two neighbourhoods that your conclusion is correct ?

4 comments:

*Paustin* said...

Good Job on your scribe, maybe you should talk about how you solved the invistigation, and good job on drawing the Map about adding fractions

Nadine♡ said...

nice scribe post and nice drawing!

annedenisse 873 said...

Your diagram is very understandable because it uses a line to connect so it can show you the next step you can do. Good job overall!

Michael Jordan 873 said...

good job, i really understand diagram and nice explanation