My best mistake this week was trying to find a common denominator when I didn’t need to—especially while doing multiplication and division with fractions. I kept mixing up the rules between operations, which slowed me down and caused errors. by finding a common denominator first, which isn’t needed at all for multiplication. I should’ve just multiplied straight acrossand thought I needed to make common denominators. I then continued to find a common denominator when adding or subtracting. It snapped me back into what I previously knew. One of my biggest problems in my inability to slow down when doing operations that contain memorization (every math problem with multiple operations)
These are things I practice
Multiply across for multiplication
Flip and multiply for division
This mistake slowed me down and I reviewed the operation carefully, and use the right method. It’s been great practice for the unit test and made me feel more confident working with all types of fraction problems.
