It has been a little over 6 decades since I last played with fraction math exercises in school. It has been 2 years since I last played along with you and I was still able the do them in my head as you were explaining how to do them. ...not too shabby for a 73 year old lady.🤗
Good on you Aletta, I'm your age and didn't even finish 1st year high. Even though I had a very successful working life, I have always struggled with maths. (We didn't do "maths", we did arithmetic) I recently started to try and educate myself with some algebra and transposition but I have real difficulty in remembering formulas. So I'm always going back to basics with these videos. ( What did we do before UA-cam 😊). So I'm hoping that it will all eventually stick!!!
Despite being an engineering student and doing all sorts of complicated formulas, ive always struggled with simple fraction stuff. This was a great review I didn't know I needed. Thanks so much
@@Ghostprocedure1you divide numbers based on division. For eg, if the answer is 8 over 14. We both know both of those numbers are in 2 times table since 2 times 2 is 4 and 2 times 7 is 14. Sorry for my bad English
Thank you. I’m 75 and trying to help my grand daughter over the summer. Wow. You made it so much easier than the first video I watched. I so appreciate this.
Somehow the way youve explained it, stuck. Im 45, had 3 college math classes. I still require a tutor, and today, for the first time, I think I understand and can duplicate what you've done here. Bless you
I am so grateful and thankful to you for this video. Sometimes it's just too hard in the classroom to ask the teacher to explain more then twice, when you just cannot retain or digest the formula in a pressurized environment.
Thank you sir!!!!! You really helped me by teaching me all the fractions without me searching all of them because I would struggle more by trying to memorize every technique. 😊👍🌟✨👏
watching this in year 10 a night before the final exam just incase because i never really understood fractions but this video just made it so simple and easy!! thank you tecmath!
god bless you sir you do 1000 times better job than what my previous teachers done in the past for me. you are straight forward and you make it interesting which makes it easier to follow for a person like me who has adhd. have a nice day
A million thanks to you, my good man!!!! My 5th grade daughter is currently learning how to calculate fractions, and it has been an absolute nightmare. They way they teach fractions these days is so overly complicated even for myself. But your one video here has brought everything back to me, and now I'll be able to give my daughter the extra help that she so badly needs. Thanks again, a frustrated Dad and Daughter! 👌🏻👏
Just wanted to say thanks for you taking the time to make these videos. I've been out for school for a decade now, so I had to relearn all of this material to be successful on the ASVAB. I was able to get the scores needed to join Special Warfare! Hopefully this gives you motivation to continue putting out your content, for the people who have a greater calling in life.
Thankyou very much sir. I have my SATS coming up and im a new student. it took two months for them to enroll me in the school and i forgot literally everything in those two months. Huge respect to u
I tutor my grandchildren in Math and use your channel frequently to get started with our lesson reviews in fractions, percents, neg and pos etc- so handy!
I am so glad I found your channel!!! I am a boomer, trying to help my 5th grade great grand daughter with fractions. It's been a minute since I've done this. You explained it in simple terms, and not the so called new math way! Thank you ! And yes, you gained a new follower!!
MAN OH MAN Thank you so much for your lessons as I find them extremely simplified so even and older guy like me can understand it. In this one video alone I just learned how to do fractions. When I took it 30 years ago in school it took me over a month to understand. I wish you were my highschool teacher back in the 80s
I'm in my 40s, so it's been a while since I've dealt with fractions. I have a grandchild to help with homework; this video has helped so much. Thank you 🙏
BOY OFC IM GOING TO SAY SOMETHING LOVELY YOU KNOW THAT YOU JUST HELPED WITH THE ONLY PROBLEM I HAD IN MY MATH EXAM I LITERALLY CAN GET A 20/20 BECAUSE OF YOU SO THANK YOU SOOO MUCH YOU'RE LITTERLY A LIFESAVER 😘❤❤❤❤
Before watching this video, I would've said I hated dealing with fractions, but after watching your video it helped a lot! Thank you for sharing how to solve different problems with the same & different denominators. I'm so glad I clicked on this video!! :)
I am terrible at maths , even though passing my electrical exams 36 years ago !! Your video on understanding the simple ways of caculating fractions is brilliant. Where were you in '86. !!!
I cannot begin to tell you how much I've hated fractions. I had just didnt understand them growing up. The way you explained it was so easy to understand i feel stupid for not know how before! Thank you!
I've never done fractions before and your vid has helped me understand them and how to add subtract multiply and devide them. Thank you. All I've got to do now is remember how, will watch this fab vid few more times.
@@tecmath Believe it or not a friend in primary school with below grade level maths, was able to show me how to do work out a question invoving fractions.. I also understood which people I will not waste time to ask for help. Autodidact is a better option.
8:12, I am up early prepping for a preliminary test to get hired to a job as a IT support person. The lesson was easy with the help of the instructor. Thanks.
Had my 8 year old great nephew around for a visit , he told me he enjoyed maths so I set him some basic sums to see how he worked them out and found that he seemed to like the simple short version of calculation that we old timers were taught, then I started thinking about fractions and wanted to remember how to calculate all modes (addition, multiplication, division and subtraction ) found your nice and simple explanation and found myself doing the sums in my head and it all came back to me , fantastic little video and thanks for refreshing my memory banks
I’m working on re-learning some math from my school days (long ago) and this is by far the best instructions I’ve found on fractions. Excellent information, very well explained that made it easy to follow along with you, without unnecessary information. Comprehensive yet concise… that’s hard to do!! 😂
Excellent video, sir! I really appreciate the clear and easy explanation. It's been years since I graduated college and I can understand it better now unlike when they teach it at school. Since I started working, I'm also used to using a calculator and automatic formulas in Excel. This is an excellent tutorial to refresh my mind on the basics.🙂🙂
Thanks sir for this absolute good of a guide! I've been always so scared & confused about solving fractions even now in my highschool This was a big problem-solver!
I cried every day before math tests because i didnt understand but now im crying while watching this because it is that easy and i didnt understsand before tysm for helping me get my grades up for sure will watch more of your videos in the future
I am trying to become a para-professional and am about to do the test to get my certificate. This helped me so much I haven't done any math like this in years since I haven't worked any jobs involving math. But I am following my job desires to be a teacher/ para professional. Thank you so much for the video.
This demonstration made me laugh and made me think. When I was in school 50 years ago I always considered myself to be a bit of a math moron. When I got into trade school when I was 19 I found out we were all math morons but I was just a tad less moronic than most of the others in my class since I actually remembered all of this and the answers came easy. I actually helped a few of them with things that were giving them trouble. About 25 years on later on in life, I was staying at a co-workers home while I worked away from home. One evening I found out his step daughter had a math test the following day and she had no hope of passing because she could not do fractions to save her life (She was in grade 10 at the time) and they had been warned that 1/2 of the test was to be working with fractions. I was a little upset with my co-worker because instead of helping the kid he harangued her and told her she was dumb, unlike her older sister who was perfect and in first year university. Not fair, not fair at all. The girl was in tears, embarrassed because she really believed she was stupid, and felt about 2" high. He finally stormed off to watch TV while her Mother sat and said nothing. I quietly asked the girl if she would like some help. She said nothing but gave a little nod. The Mother again said nothing. I started by telling her that she knew how to do this but like most things in your mind if you don't exercise it, you forget. The idea was to boost her confidence which at that point was nil. We started as you did with adding fractions and all answers had to be reduced to proper fractions. It took about 15 minutes as we worked together to lock it into her brain and she was proficient. Next subtraction. Same result but it only took 10 minutes or so. We moved on to multiplication and that was a breeze. Finally division. It took a little longer because of the cross multiplication but she got it. I made a bet with her that if she could beat me doing 20 identical questions, I would give her $20.00 but all answers had to given as proper fractions. She didn't want to bet but she asked what she had to do if I won. I told her if I won she had better pass her math test or she would owe me $20.00. She thought for a moment and the said alright, let's do it. We wrote out 20 identical questions on 2 pieces of paper and we started. While I was doing my paper I kept a furtive eye on her and paced myself so that I lagged just a moment behind. A couple of times I intentionally made mistakes when returning proper fractions. She never knew what I was doing since she was concentrating so hard at her task. We finished within a second or 2 of one another and when tallied, she had won. She had 20 right while I only had 18. I bitched a little bit, teased her and told her I thought she was a math hustler, (She laughed at that) and gave her the $20.00. She had a huge smile on her face. She was now a winner and she glowed in the satisfaction of knowing that and knowing she could do the job. She went up to her room to study a bit before she went to bed and she thanked me for my help. All the while this was happening, the Mother sat at the same table and never said a word. I thought she didn't care but after the youngster left she asked me, "Why aren't you teaching?" It came out of left field and caught me off guard but I was glib and told her it didn't pay enough. The she asked me a question I had never thought I would hear. She asked if I could help her to learn how to do fractions. She said she had caught some of it but not all and would like some help. I was dumb stuck for a second or 2. You see, it wasn't that Mom didn't care, it was the fact that Mom didn't know and didn't know what to do. She was afraid she would make it worse if she tried to help and was wrong. She also knew her Husband was an asshole and he couldn't do fractions himself. We worked together for about 1/2 an hour and she quickly learned everything her daughter knew. When done, she asked if I would like a coffee and I said no, but a tea would be nice. She made tea and came back to the table with it. She reached into her purse and pulled out $40.00 and tried to give it to me. I said no, but I would take 20 to replace the one I had given out earlier. She asked me if I knew some way she could help her daughter further in her schooling. I thought for a moment and told her, "Talk to her teachers. Find out what's coming up next and then head for the library and she could read up on it and re-educate herself to what she knew but had forgotten." Over the next 3 months she was a busy woman. She worked all day and then hit the library in the evenings. She worked with her child every night after dinner for and hour or so before she went out to the library. At the end of the year the daughter graduated grade 10. She was a solid B student (Up from a C plus) with an A minus in math. As for Mom, well, she was tickled pink with her daughters success. I moved out about a month after graduation as the job was finished and I went home. One day, about 20 years later, I was sitting in a restaurant having a meal. There was a young couple sitting a few tables over and the woman kept staring at me. It bothered me a bit but I tried to ignore it as best I could. After a while the young woman got up and came over to my table. She said, "You don't remember me do you." I admitted that no, I couldn't say as I did. She asked if I remembered teaching a young girl how to do fractions. Then I knew who she was and asked her, "What's 1/2 times 1/2?" She laughed and said one quarter and asked if she could sit with me for a moment. I said, "Of course you can you math shark you." We talked about things. She had gone to university where she got a degree in nursing and specialized in oncological nursing. She was now working in a local hospital in the cancer unit for terminal patients. She was also married with 2 children of her own. I asked how her Mother was. She fell quiet for a few seconds and then explained her Mother had divorced her step dad years ago and never re-married until her death from cancer a few years before. I told her I was sorry for her loss. She said that she was okay with it as she dealt with it every day in her field of nursing so she had been able to nurse her Mother in those final days. While she nursed her, her Mother had told her about things in their lives she had never known. One of those things was how I had rigged the bet. She also told her about how I had shown her how to help her child get an education. She started to cry a little bit and I asked if she was okay. She nodded yes and then said, "You changed our lives you know. I can never repay you for that." About then she noticed her Husband was ready to leave so she stood up to go, but before she did, she leaned into me and gave me a big hug and a whispered thank you. I sat for a few minutes more finishing my tea and then asked the waitress for my bill. She came back with a till receipt and told me the bill had been paid by the young couple that had just left. I looked at the receipt and saw that with tip it was exactly $20.00. I held it together being a rough tough construction worker and all, but I did shed a few tears in the privacy of my truck on the way home. You see, she had just changed my life when she told me about her Mom and their successes in life. All this because I knew how to do a little math......... So thank you for your video. It reminded me that I had done at least one good thing in my life.
Due to my mom being neglectful and not teaching me my native language I couldn’t understand anything the math teacher was saying. So I’m using up some leftover time to learn from you and make up for the time that was lost.
With adding mixed numbers, I usually add the whole numbers first, then add the fractions together, then add the fraction to the whole numbers So, with his example (1 1/2 + 4 2/3) I would do: 1 + 4 = 5 1/2 + 2/3 = 3/6 + 4/6 = 7/6 7/6 = 1 1/6 5 + 1 + 1/6 = 6 1/6 I just find this way simpler because the numbers are easier particularly when they're bigger It still gives the same answer both ways work
I released few days ago that i forgot all of these equations and suddenly this video popped up on the screen thank you for this video teacher I really needed it
A faster way to add or subtract mixed numbers is to add (or subtract) whole number parts separately, add (or subtract) fractional parts separately, then perform any carrying or borrowing as needed should the resulting fractional part end up either at least 1 or negative.
This was so simply put....thank you 💖 just one question.. so even if it's like denominators, do you still take the typical and divide? And how do you divide mixed fractions
That was an excellent review. However children really struggle with fractions and just learn the process without really understanding why it works. But it is also a rich area for building on & strengthening their knowledge of arithmetic for natural numbers. How many teachers make the connection (as you did) that fractions where the numerator is above the denominator are just another way of expressing a number divided by the denominator. Is this a back door way of teaching division by using multiplication by its reciprocal? Students can often double numbers quite easily but halving a number can be challenging at first.
It has been a little over 6 decades since I last played with fraction math exercises in school. It has been 2 years since I last played along with you and I was still able the do them in my head as you were explaining how to do them. ...not too shabby for a 73 year old lady.🤗
Pretty impressive.
Glad you went well.
Good on you Aletta, I'm your age and didn't even finish 1st year high. Even though I had a very successful working life, I have always struggled with maths. (We didn't do "maths", we did arithmetic) I recently started to try and educate myself with some algebra and transposition but I have real difficulty in remembering formulas. So I'm always going back to basics with these videos. ( What did we do before UA-cam 😊). So I'm hoping that it will all eventually stick!!!
Well done you courageous women ❤😊
2/5+1/5=
1/5+1/5
Despite being an engineering student and doing all sorts of complicated formulas, ive always struggled with simple fraction stuff. This was a great review I didn't know I needed. Thanks so much
Thank you. How did you go?
I thought I was just to dumb for engineering
This was wonderful, thank you
@@Ghostprocedure1you divide numbers based on division. For eg, if the answer is 8 over 14. We both know both of those numbers are in 2 times table since 2 times 2 is 4 and 2 times 7 is 14.
Sorry for my bad English
@@tecmath❤❤
As a uni student struggling with maths this has been quite useful
Thank you. I’m 75 and trying to help my grand daughter over the summer. Wow. You made it so much easier than the first video I watched. I so appreciate this.
Wow, proud of you! The best grand parent!!
Lol I'm trying to help my daughter with her beginning of 8th grade math. I had to come here for a refresher myself.
Somehow the way youve explained it, stuck. Im 45, had 3 college math classes. I still require a tutor, and today, for the first time, I think I understand and can duplicate what you've done here. Bless you
I am so grateful and thankful to you for this video. Sometimes it's just too hard in the classroom to ask the teacher to explain more then twice, when you just cannot retain or digest the formula in a pressurized environment.
I agree.☺
this is extremely easy to understand and makes revision feel like heaven. you earned my subscription thats for sure
Thank you sir!!!!! You really helped me by teaching me all the fractions without me searching all of them because I would struggle more by trying to memorize every technique. 😊👍🌟✨👏
watching this in year 10 a night before the final exam just incase because i never really understood fractions but this video just made it so simple and easy!! thank you tecmath!
You my friend are my go to channel for getting things straight when I am trying to help my daughter out with her homework. Thanks a lot.
anyone else refreshing their math
Yeah... I'm a 40 year old woman who was once really good at this!!!
Always 😊
Why not💨
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yep 😂
Wish I had this in grade school. One of my favourite channels as a math hobbiest who struggled with it in grade school. Keep up the great work sir.
Thank you
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Wow amazing, not even my lecture can explain like that❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️✅
god bless you sir
you do 1000 times better job than what my previous teachers done in the past for me. you are straight forward and you make it interesting which makes it easier to follow for a person like me who has adhd. have a nice day
I have been struggling all my life but this channel helped me so much
These videos have really been a help in teaching math to my grand daughter… Thank you!
A million thanks to you, my good man!!!! My 5th grade daughter is currently learning how to calculate fractions, and it has been an absolute nightmare. They way they teach fractions these days is so overly complicated even for myself. But your one video here has brought everything back to me, and now I'll be able to give my daughter the extra help that she so badly needs. Thanks again, a frustrated Dad and Daughter! 👌🏻👏
I've watched alot of fractions tutorial but this is the most easy to understand woahhh it really helps me alot
Just wanted to say thanks for you taking the time to make these videos.
I've been out for school for a decade now, so I had to relearn all of this material to be successful on the ASVAB.
I was able to get the scores needed to join Special Warfare!
Hopefully this gives you motivation to continue putting out your content, for the people who have a greater calling in life.
Thankyou very much sir. I have my SATS coming up and im a new student. it took two months for them to enroll me in the school and i forgot literally everything in those two months. Huge respect to u
I tutor my grandchildren in Math and use your channel frequently to get started with our lesson reviews in fractions, percents, neg and pos etc- so handy!
👍👍I can always count on you for help. You will be our math helper again this year. This year for 7th grade math . Thanks again.
Thank you.
I always love the idea,what you got about mathematical operation.
It has been quite a while since I was asked to use fractions... Thank you for the review!!
Wow you've just explain all the basic of fractions in the simplest way in just 12 minutes
Thanks a million - I’ll use your instructions to explain to a young man I know who struggles with fractions
Thank you! I'm pretty bad at math and i thought fractions was hard but this tutorial was easy and very clear!
I am so glad I found your channel!!! I am a boomer, trying to help my 5th grade great grand daughter with fractions. It's been a minute since I've done this. You explained it in simple terms, and not the so called new math way! Thank you ! And yes, you gained a new follower!!
MAN OH MAN Thank you so much for your lessons as I find them extremely simplified so even and older guy like me can understand it.
In this one video alone I just learned how to do fractions. When I took it 30 years ago in school it took me over a month to understand.
I wish you were my highschool teacher back in the 80s
I'm in my 40s, so it's been a while since I've dealt with fractions. I have a grandchild to help with homework; this video has helped so much. Thank you 🙏
BOY OFC IM GOING TO SAY SOMETHING LOVELY YOU KNOW THAT YOU JUST HELPED WITH THE ONLY PROBLEM I HAD IN MY MATH EXAM I LITERALLY CAN GET A 20/20 BECAUSE OF YOU SO THANK YOU SOOO MUCH YOU'RE LITTERLY A LIFESAVER 😘❤❤❤❤
Before watching this video, I would've said I hated dealing with fractions, but after watching your video it helped a lot! Thank you for sharing how to solve different problems with the same & different denominators. I'm so glad I clicked on this video!! :)
Thanks for the lesson, I have always been struggling with simple fractions
Hated Algebra in school but since I have been reviewing it you have made it understandable GREAT EXPLANATION!
Was struggling with this. Thanks to you now i get it. It was simple yet brilliant explanation.
I LOVE THIS VEDIO! if only my math teacher could explain me like this... no youtuber has ever explained or posted any usefull vedio like this☺❤👍
I am terrible at maths , even though passing my electrical exams 36 years ago !!
Your video on understanding the simple ways of caculating fractions is brilliant.
Where were you in '86. !!!
At 67 this was so much fun. Thank you for taking the time to do this..from Qld.
I cannot begin to tell you how much I've hated fractions. I had just didnt understand them growing up. The way you explained it was so easy to understand i feel stupid for not know how before! Thank you!
Thank you so much we will have a test tomorrow and it will really help me
Nice cross-multiplying tricks for adding and subtracting fractions!
ive always been terrible at maths I barely knew what a fraction was and this video has helped me a lot
Brilliant and straight to the point !!!
Thanks for the refresher Josh. We may tend to forget after 60 years.
Thanks Tony.
How are you keeping?
@@tecmath We're all good thanks Josh, aside from a few health issues. Hope you'e doing well
I just wanted to say thanks alot for the time you take to explain these questions carefully ,it really helps alot thank you.
is it just me who got forced to study by my mom so I watched this and It actually helped really well lol
Thank you so much for the examples, I need to study my timetables - I'm rusty with maths at the moment lol. Great job thanks again.
I've never done fractions before and your vid has helped me understand them and how to add subtract multiply and devide them. Thank you. All I've got to do now is remember how, will watch this fab vid few more times.
I’m 76 and not remembering my basic math. I love listening to your tutorials cuz I remember my early days
What is your wisdome megeger.
Thanks Josh you are a great help.
Thank you Josh, great refresher and that is logical thinking. No time to have antipathy for fractions.
No time. Thanks for sharing mate.
@@tecmath Believe it or not a friend in primary school with below grade level maths, was able to show me how to do work out a question invoving fractions.. I also understood which people I will not waste time to ask for help. Autodidact is a better option.
Guess my logical thinking is broken
8:12, I am up early prepping for a preliminary test to get hired to a job as a IT support person. The lesson was easy with the help of the instructor. Thanks.
Shalom! Thank you so much! You are a blessing to me. Your teaching technique is so simple and understood. I can help explain your way. Thanks much❤
Thumbs up to this wonderful refresher❤❤
Thank you for such a simple and straightforward explanation.
It's beautiful thank you so much you are helping me through school with this
Had my 8 year old great nephew around for a visit , he told me he enjoyed maths so I set him some basic sums to see how he worked them out and found that he seemed to like the simple short version of calculation that we old timers were taught, then I started thinking about fractions and wanted to remember how to calculate all modes (addition, multiplication, division and subtraction ) found your nice and simple explanation and found myself doing the sums in my head and it all came back to me , fantastic little video and thanks for refreshing my memory banks
I’m working on re-learning some math from my school days (long ago) and this is by far the best instructions I’ve found on fractions. Excellent information, very well explained that made it easy to follow along with you, without unnecessary information.
Comprehensive yet concise… that’s hard to do!! 😂
Excellent video, sir! I really appreciate the clear and easy explanation. It's been years since I graduated college and I can understand it better now unlike when they teach it at school. Since I started working, I'm also used to using a calculator and automatic formulas in Excel. This is an excellent tutorial to refresh my mind on the basics.🙂🙂
I am a dentist, after a long time helping my son with his homework your video refreshes my basic math skills. Thank you 👍.
Love your channel. It really makes it easy for the kids!
Thank you.
I'm glad it helps. Thanks for watching.
Hvac tech here taking classes, and i have to say. This is the greatest explanation video!!!!
Thanks sir for this absolute good of a guide! I've been always so scared & confused about solving fractions even now in my highschool
This was a big problem-solver!
I have learned very easily and quickly thanks to Tecmath 😊
I cried every day before math tests because i didnt understand but now im crying while watching this because it is that easy and i didnt understsand before tysm for helping me get my grades up for sure will watch more of your videos in the future
I'm really glad it helped.
Thank you for those kind words.
But now i am not crying*
I am trying to become a para-professional and am about to do the test to get my certificate. This helped me so much I haven't done any math like this in years since I haven't worked any jobs involving math. But I am following my job desires to be a teacher/ para professional. Thank you so much for the video.
This demonstration made me laugh and made me think. When I was in school 50 years ago I always considered myself to be a bit of a math moron. When I got into trade school when I was 19 I found out we were all math morons but I was just a tad less moronic than most of the others in my class since I actually remembered all of this and the answers came easy. I actually helped a few of them with things that were giving them trouble.
About 25 years on later on in life, I was staying at a co-workers home while I worked away from home. One evening I found out his step daughter had a math test the following day and she had no hope of passing because she could not do fractions to save her life (She was in grade 10 at the time) and they had been warned that 1/2 of the test was to be working with fractions. I was a little upset with my co-worker because instead of helping the kid he harangued her and told her she was dumb, unlike her older sister who was perfect and in first year university. Not fair, not fair at all. The girl was in tears, embarrassed because she really believed she was stupid, and felt about 2" high. He finally stormed off to watch TV while her Mother sat and said nothing.
I quietly asked the girl if she would like some help. She said nothing but gave a little nod. The Mother again said nothing. I started by telling her that she knew how to do this but like most things in your mind if you don't exercise it, you forget. The idea was to boost her confidence which at that point was nil. We started as you did with adding fractions and all answers had to be reduced to proper fractions. It took about 15 minutes as we worked together to lock it into her brain and she was proficient. Next subtraction. Same result but it only took 10 minutes or so. We moved on to multiplication and that was a breeze. Finally division. It took a little longer because of the cross multiplication but she got it.
I made a bet with her that if she could beat me doing 20 identical questions, I would give her $20.00 but all answers had to given as proper fractions. She didn't want to bet but she asked what she had to do if I won. I told her if I won she had better pass her math test or she would owe me $20.00. She thought for a moment and the said alright, let's do it. We wrote out 20 identical questions on 2 pieces of paper and we started. While I was doing my paper I kept a furtive eye on her and paced myself so that I lagged just a moment behind. A couple of times I intentionally made mistakes when returning proper fractions. She never knew what I was doing since she was concentrating so hard at her task. We finished within a second or 2 of one another and when tallied, she had won. She had 20 right while I only had 18. I bitched a little bit, teased her and told her I thought she was a math hustler, (She laughed at that) and gave her the $20.00. She had a huge smile on her face. She was now a winner and she glowed in the satisfaction of knowing that and knowing she could do the job. She went up to her room to study a bit before she went to bed and she thanked me for my help.
All the while this was happening, the Mother sat at the same table and never said a word. I thought she didn't care but after the youngster left she asked me, "Why aren't you teaching?" It came out of left field and caught me off guard but I was glib and told her it didn't pay enough. The she asked me a question I had never thought I would hear. She asked if I could help her to learn how to do fractions. She said she had caught some of it but not all and would like some help. I was dumb stuck for a second or 2. You see, it wasn't that Mom didn't care, it was the fact that Mom didn't know and didn't know what to do. She was afraid she would make it worse if she tried to help and was wrong. She also knew her Husband was an asshole and he couldn't do fractions himself. We worked together for about 1/2 an hour and she quickly learned everything her daughter knew.
When done, she asked if I would like a coffee and I said no, but a tea would be nice. She made tea and came back to the table with it. She reached into her purse and pulled out $40.00 and tried to give it to me. I said no, but I would take 20 to replace the one I had given out earlier. She asked me if I knew some way she could help her daughter further in her schooling. I thought for a moment and told her, "Talk to her teachers. Find out what's coming up next and then head for the library and she could read up on it and re-educate herself to what she knew but had forgotten." Over the next 3 months she was a busy woman. She worked all day and then hit the library in the evenings. She worked with her child every night after dinner for and hour or so before she went out to the library. At the end of the year the daughter graduated grade 10. She was a solid B student (Up from a C plus) with an A minus in math. As for Mom, well, she was tickled pink with her daughters success. I moved out about a month after graduation as the job was finished and I went home.
One day, about 20 years later, I was sitting in a restaurant having a meal. There was a young couple sitting a few tables over and the woman kept staring at me. It bothered me a bit but I tried to ignore it as best I could. After a while the young woman got up and came over to my table. She said, "You don't remember me do you." I admitted that no, I couldn't say as I did. She asked if I remembered teaching a young girl how to do fractions. Then I knew who she was and asked her, "What's 1/2 times 1/2?" She laughed and said one quarter and asked if she could sit with me for a moment. I said, "Of course you can you math shark you." We talked about things. She had gone to university where she got a degree in nursing and specialized in oncological nursing. She was now working in a local hospital in the cancer unit for terminal patients. She was also married with 2 children of her own. I asked how her Mother was. She fell quiet for a few seconds and then explained her Mother had divorced her step dad years ago and never re-married until her death from cancer a few years before. I told her I was sorry for her loss. She said that she was okay with it as she dealt with it every day in her field of nursing so she had been able to nurse her Mother in those final days. While she nursed her, her Mother had told her about things in their lives she had never known. One of those things was how I had rigged the bet. She also told her about how I had shown her how to help her child get an education. She started to cry a little bit and I asked if she was okay. She nodded yes and then said, "You changed our lives you know. I can never repay you for that." About then she noticed her Husband was ready to leave so she stood up to go, but before she did, she leaned into me and gave me a big hug and a whispered thank you. I sat for a few minutes more finishing my tea and then asked the waitress for my bill. She came back with a till receipt and told me the bill had been paid by the young couple that had just left. I looked at the receipt and saw that with tip it was exactly $20.00.
I held it together being a rough tough construction worker and all, but I did shed a few tears in the privacy of my truck on the way home. You see, she had just changed my life when she told me about her Mom and their successes in life. All this because I knew how to do a little math.........
So thank you for your video. It reminded me that I had done at least one good thing in my life.
That is a really great story! You made such an inpact on that familys life! I'm glad you shared your story and that I read it too! ❤
❤🎉❤🎉❤ thank you for your telling this story, ❤🎉❤🎉
💞 beautiful!
不必翻译成中文，英文浅白。大家应该把它读完。这是一个动人的故事！
I've been out of school for a long time. You have helped me so much. Bless you !
Great videos as always. I use your videos to teach my girls when they don't understand what they've been taught at school.
Glad they help.
im 20 currently going for my ged. ive always struggled with math (mostly fractions) this helps alot
Your videos are so invaluable. I can't thank you enough for all you do!
Due to my mom being neglectful and not teaching me my native language I couldn’t understand anything the math teacher was saying. So I’m using up some leftover time to learn from you and make up for the time that was lost.
I always had trouble understanding why multiplying a number would make it smaller 😂. Great video, gonna save it for the future just in case 😅
Very good teaching.Easy to understand.
I didn't expect that it will be easier than I thought earlier! Thank you for teaching us how to do it many people will appreciate it!
You are a very nice teacher
With adding mixed numbers, I usually add the whole numbers first, then add the fractions together, then add the fraction to the whole numbers
So, with his example (1 1/2 + 4 2/3) I would do:
1 + 4 = 5
1/2 + 2/3 = 3/6 + 4/6 = 7/6
7/6 = 1 1/6
5 + 1 + 1/6 = 6 1/6
I just find this way simpler because the numbers are easier particularly when they're bigger
It still gives the same answer both ways work
Thank you for sharing your technique and an example.
Never thought I'd need to refresh my memory when it came to maths.
Needed help with fractions.
Thanks a lot, much appreciated. 👍
thank you for these easy tricks in solving fractions 🤗 I've learned a lot easier here than the years I've spent in schooling lol 😅
These is very educationally please keep your job up❤❤❤
Very informative and reminds me on my younger days.
3+8/12=
11/12
The best explanation that I've had of all four, m,d,a,s. This way I can see all together and remember easier. T U
5:07 what do you mean about 2 going in the top and bottom?
I am 35 and try to re understand this and this video was easy to understand, thanks for taking the time to do this.
I released few days ago that i forgot all of these equations and suddenly this video popped up on the screen
thank you for this video teacher I really needed it
Good timing!
Thanks for sharing mate.
I appreciate your time, it's more than useful
Thank you it is very helpful for me as a teacher. GB
I had to review fractions in less than an hour with an upcoming test. This video helped me GREATLY. Thank you so much
A faster way to add or subtract mixed numbers is to add (or subtract) whole number parts separately, add (or subtract) fractional parts separately, then perform any carrying or borrowing as needed should the resulting fractional part end up either at least 1 or negative.
that's how I always do it
Am writing my exam tomorrow with this I know I will get a good mark🙏👏
currently watching this in retake college class
Thank you this was really helpful now i wont struggle with this
This was so simply put....thank you 💖 just one question.. so even if it's like denominators, do you still take the typical and divide? And how do you divide mixed fractions
great work, finance major here and this should be taught to everyone over and over!! great work
That was an excellent review. However children really struggle with fractions and just learn the process without really understanding why it works. But it is also a rich area for building on & strengthening their knowledge of arithmetic for natural numbers. How many teachers make the connection (as you did) that fractions where the numerator is above the denominator are just another way of expressing a number divided by the denominator. Is this a back door way of teaching division by using multiplication by its reciprocal? Students can often double numbers quite easily but halving a number can be challenging at first.
Man thank you so much for your help I didn't understand this, but you helped 👍
Hi, can you show how to calculate the optimal performance for a delivery driver, say Amazon, to multiple locations using the equation?
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Thank you I'm homeschooling my kids, and I do not remember anything about fractions , so thank you for putting it all in a nutshell💗
Brilliant.
Thank you sir for this video it has helped me a lot.❤