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ERIC Number: EJ988261
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1051-1970
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Uncommon Connections with Common Numerators
Lesser, Lawrence M.; Guthrie, Joe A.
PRIMUS, v22 n8 p634-642 2012
Undergraduate students who are pre-service teachers need to make connections between the college mathematics they are learning and the pre-college mathematics they will be teaching. Spanning a broad range of undergraduate curricula, this article describes useful lesser-known connections, explorations, and original proofs involving fractions. In particular, we use standard tools of number theory to investigate when an integer results from "bc/(b + c)", an expression that arises from the not uncommon situation of adding fractions with a common numerator.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education
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Language: English
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