Fractions Essentials Workbook with Answers

Book excerpt: 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.