 | Albert Newton Raub - Arithmetic - 1894 - 200 pages
...— one-half, one-third, one-fourth, two-fourths, three-fourths, etc. — are called fractions. 68. A Fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit 69. A fraction is usually expressed by writing the num. bers one above the other with a short horizontal... | |
 | Edwin Pliny Seaver, George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1895 - 412 pages
...fractional number. By common usage fractional units and fractional numbers are all called fractions. 176. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. 177. The unit which is divided to make a fraction is called the unit of the fraction. 178. The number... | |
 | Bothwell Graham - Arithmetic - 1895 - 240 pages
...fraction is one or more of the equal parts of anything," let the pupil be led to the truer definition : A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. A unit is abstract, always ; it is one time, or once, a standard of measure. 180. Examples for Oral... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Arithmetic - 1895 - 200 pages
...three, three fourths, | ; a¡id so on. These expressions, £, ¿, J, |, etc., are called fractions. 66. A Fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. 67. The number below the line shows into how many equal parts the unit is divided, and is called the... | |
 | James Alexander McLellan, John Dewey - Arithmetic - 1895 - 336 pages
...measurement, a unity of units — a sum. Nor is it entirely consistent with the measuring idea to say that a fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unity. Of course, in counting the equal parts of a measured whole — a unity — we take a number... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Arithmetic - 1895 - 398 pages
...Fractions; and to distinguish them from Decimal Fractions, they are called Common Fractions. 112. Л Fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. 113. A Common Fraction is expressed hy two numbers, one above and the other below a line ; thus, J... | |
 | James Alexander McLellan, John Dewey - Arithmetic - 1895 - 348 pages
...measurement, a unity of units — a sum. Nor is it entirely consistent with the measuring idea to say that a fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unity. Of course, in counting the equal parts of a measured whole — a unity — we take a number... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - Arithmetic - 1896 - 296 pages
...12) is a perfect square, if (i X |) is a perfect square. 6.25 (2.5 X 2.5) is a perfect square. 32. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. Seven eighths is a fraction. Five twelfths is a fraction. 33. A fraction may be expressed by two numbers,... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Algebra - 1896 - 418 pages
...the factors thus obtained being united as in § 235. WHITE'S ALO. — 9 CHAPTER IX. FRACTIONS. 239. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. The unit which is divided into equal parts is the unit of the fraction, and one of these equal parts... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - Arithmetic - 1896 - 296 pages
...12) is a perfect square, Ji (! X j) is a perfect square. 6.25 (2.5 X 2.5) is a perfect square. 32. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. Seven eighths is a fraction. Five twelfths is a fraction. 33. A fraction may be expressed by two numbers,... | |
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