 | William Augustus Mowry - Education - 1908 - 386 pages
...years. I will mention only a few of them. I should give the following definition in fractions : 1. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. Or it may be stated in this way : a fraction is one or more Some New of the equal parts into which a unit... | |
 | William Augustus Mowry - Education - 1908 - 344 pages
...after years. I will mention only a few of them. I should give the following definition in fractions: 1. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. Or it may be stated in this way: a fraction is one or more Some New of the equal parts into which a unit... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson McEvoy - Education - 1908 - 472 pages
...children are familiar. There are two conceptions of fractions, which a teacher should keep in mind : A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit; a fraction is simply an indicated operation in division. The concept of half of a familiar object is... | |
 | Samuel Hamilton - Arithmetic - 1909 - 294 pages
...J of the first circle ; | of the second circle, and ^ of the third circle. A unit is any one thing. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. 22. Write in figures one half ; one fourth. How many figures are needed to express a common fraction... | |
 | Samuel Hamilton - Arithmetic - 1909 - 308 pages
...size £ of the first circle ; the second circle, and | of the third circle. A unit is any one thing. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. of 22. Write in figures one half ; one fourth. How many figures are needed to express a common fraction... | |
 | Jacob William Albert Young, Lambert Lincoln Jackson - Arithmetic - 1909 - 282 pages
...11,500 horse-power each. How many horse-power does the station furnish? CHAPTER II COMMON FRACTIONS 75. One or more of the equal parts of a unit, or of a quantity thought of as a whole thing, is called a fraction. 76. PREPARATORY. 1. How many feet in... | |
 | Jacob William Albert Young, Lambert Lincoln Jackson - Arithmetic - 1909 - 310 pages
...square would he have painted ? How many fourths in one half ? In two halves ? In •one whole thing? 16. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a whole thing. 1. Read these fractions : £ ; ^ ; \ ; £. 2. Name two fractions, one of which is twice... | |
 | John William McClymonds, David Rhys Jones - Arithmetic - 1910 - 336 pages
...3 such parts are expressed as | mi. A unit may be regarded as composed of 2 or more equal parts. 3. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit, as |, |, etc. 4. In the fraction |, 4 is the denominator. It shows the number of equal parts into which... | |
 | DeForest A. Preston, Edward Lawrence Stevens - Arithmetic - 1910 - 274 pages
...melons, at 25^ each, can be bought for $3.50 ? 101. What we have learned about Fractions and Decimals. 1. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. § show 2 of the 3 equal parts of a unit. the denominator. It shows that the unit has been divided... | |
 | John William McClymonds, David Rhys Jones - Arithmetic - 1910 - 332 pages
...3 such parts are expressed as | mi. A unit may be regarded as composed of 2 or more equal parts. 3. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit, as |, |, etc. 4. In the fraction f, 4 is the denominator. It shows the number of equal parts into which... | |
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Which is the smaller, fifths or thirds? Why? DEFINITIONS. 98. A. fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit, or of anything regarded as a whole.* 
