Decimats

Today in math we learnt what decimats are. Decimats are boxes to help you sort out fractions like 1/3 of 3 and 1/2 of 6, here is what we did!  First Mrs Woolley gave us a decimat which looks like a rectangle box, then we told us to make it into 1/2 so we put a line through the box. Next she told us to make it into 1/4 so we put a line through the box but across the rectangle. After that she told us to cut the box into eight so we did. Last of all she told us to shade in one of the eighths and then she asked " What's the fraction?" We all said 1/8 it was hard keeping up with all of the steps but easy to use the decimat. How interesting!

4/5 of 60

Today in math we were doing fractions we got to solve whatever we want the options were 4/5 of 60, 3/8 of 82 and something I do not remember. I picked 4/5 of 60. When I was working Mrs McG said if we want to work the questions out first we need to figure out what 1 was or you were not going to get anywhere. Later I found out that one 5th was 12 so then I just needed to know what 4x5 is and I found out that was 48 and there is my answer. Did you know the answer all along how did you find it out?