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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 800px"><img alt="A photo of several bakers at work on a table in a classroom setting." height="369" src="https://data.ulearngo.com/assets/150af010-9ef7-449d-bfe7-03b8c88bea46" width="800"/><p class="wp-caption-text">Bakers combine ingredients to make delicious breads and pastries. (credit: Agustín Ruiz, Flickr)</p></div>
<p>Often in life, whole amounts are not exactly what we need. A baker must use a little more than a cup of milk or part of a teaspoon of sugar. Similarly a carpenter might need less than a foot of wood and a painter might use part of a gallon of paint. In this tutorial, we will learn about numbers that describe parts of a whole. These numbers, called fractions, are very useful both in algebra and in everyday life. You will discover that you are already familiar with many examples of fractions!</p>
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Introduction to Fractions

Mathematics studies measurement, relationships, and properties of quantities and sets, using numbers and symbols. Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and calculus are popular topics in mathematics.

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Discover how to model fractions, simplify them, find equivalent fractions, and perform operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with both fractions and mixed numbers, as well as solving equations that involve fractions.


Introducing Fractions

Introduction to Fractions

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