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Showing posts with label fraction Egyptian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fraction Egyptian. Show all posts

Monday, 5 December 2016

Yohaku-like fraction addition puzzles

brought to my attention by one of Ed Southall's tweets (thanks) @solvemymaths

the name is created by Michael Jacobs who has many Yohakus,
for integers, decimals and directed numbers as well as fractions,
with multiplication as well as addition
2 by 2 up to 4 by 4 grids
and algebriac expression multiplication

these are simple but highly effective puzzles that involve practice of a variety of skills

the powerpoint suggests a way to tackle these particular fraction puzzles (Egyptian fractions)

(there might be more than one solution to some of these?)




Sunday, 26 January 2014

Egyptian fractions

around 2000 BCE, Ancient Egyptians wrote fractions as a sum of unit fractions
possibly to more easily give a sense of size of the fraction











should be printed on parchment paper...