The author, Chris McMullen, Ph.D., has over twenty years of experience teaching math skills to physics students. He prepared this comprehensive workbook to share his strategies for mastering fractions. With 20 chapters and 250 pages, this workbook covers a variety of essential fractions skills, including:
fractions, decimals, and percentages
how to find a common denominator
repeating decimals
adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions
converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions
solving problems with ratios or proportions
word problems
long division with remainders
reducing fractions
finding reciprocals
what a fraction means visually
This workbook includes a pretest and a posttest to help assess student learning. Comparing pretest and posttest scores helps to measure how much students have learned by using this workbook. Teachers, parents, and even students may find this helpful.