Okay, so math is just short of mathematics.
Anyways, despite me being the least qualified to teach math ( I have dyscalculia, which is a numeric version of dyslexia) , my daughter is stressed out now that she's learning fractions. I WAS excited about teaching her the basic fundamentals of fractions to see where she's at. That is until she gave me a seemingly simple equation: 1.9.
"Mom, I need to figure out how to turn that into a fraction."
:err: I don't even know where to start on that one.
My original idea was that 1.9 is 1/9 or maybe 1 1/9. I don't know.
So, just like with everything I'm stumped on I turned to the good ol' world wide web. The internet was a help alright. It helped me realize I was way off on that idea and I still can't explain how to get to the solution. Then I started to wonder if it's really allowing my daughter and myself to learn to multiply and divide fractions by looking up the answers with just a click of the mouse.
I don't know in what kind of situation it's going to be handy to know how to convert a decimal into a fraction and multiply and divide them. It seems as about as useless as long division, which one of my teachers ranted about not enough people knowing how to do.
I am even more perplexed with directions at this so-called site: https://www.mathsisfun.com/converting-fractions-decimals.html[/URL]
I was just going to bake a pie. :veryconfused:
Thoughts?
Anyways, despite me being the least qualified to teach math ( I have dyscalculia, which is a numeric version of dyslexia) , my daughter is stressed out now that she's learning fractions. I WAS excited about teaching her the basic fundamentals of fractions to see where she's at. That is until she gave me a seemingly simple equation: 1.9.
"Mom, I need to figure out how to turn that into a fraction."
:err: I don't even know where to start on that one.
My original idea was that 1.9 is 1/9 or maybe 1 1/9. I don't know.
So, just like with everything I'm stumped on I turned to the good ol' world wide web. The internet was a help alright. It helped me realize I was way off on that idea and I still can't explain how to get to the solution. Then I started to wonder if it's really allowing my daughter and myself to learn to multiply and divide fractions by looking up the answers with just a click of the mouse.
I don't know in what kind of situation it's going to be handy to know how to convert a decimal into a fraction and multiply and divide them. It seems as about as useless as long division, which one of my teachers ranted about not enough people knowing how to do.
I am even more perplexed with directions at this so-called site: https://www.mathsisfun.com/converting-fractions-decimals.html[/URL]
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I was just going to bake a pie. :veryconfused:
Thoughts?
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