Unit 3: Fractions

Artifact 1: Peaches Today, Peaches Tomorrow

Category 1: Some of my best mathematical thinking

I chose the peaches problem because I am proud of it! It shows that I can subtract and multiply fractions. So in this problem there is a little monkey who has a certain number of peaches(you choose) that is under 100(that's not prime) and each day he keeps some peaches, gives some away then eats one. You are trying to make the peaches last for as many days as possible. The number of peaches that you have can't be the denominator of the number of peaches you're keeping(example: if you have 35 peaches you can't keep 34/35 of the peaches).

Artifact 3:Category 6: New Strategies

This piece shows how I discovered a new strategy to solve a problem . I used reciprocals(a reciprocal is the fraction that you need to multiply it by to get to one(it is also just the fraction flipped around)). So the problem was 5 x_x_=5. So you can just use reciprocals.

Artifact 4

Category 5: Made a connection

This piece shows that I made a connection between an old math idea and a new math idea. I know that you can multiply across no matter what numbers you have but with division just put the numbers into common denominators and then just pay attention to the numerators.