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Monday, September 14, 2009

Addition and subtraction of like fractions (yes you still do this in grade 8)

The difference between adding these fractions in elementary school and doing so in grade 8 is that you will have to use your integer rules to know how to add them. remember that when adding integers if the signs are the same add the numbers and keep the sign. If they are different, subtract the numbers and keep the sign.

You can change any subtraction problem to addition using keep change change.

Homework tonight : read pg. 108-109 do numbers 11-28,44,45


Test corrections due wednesday.



Web assignment due friday : Go to study island and do the assignment ocalled "Operations on rational numbers".


The following video explains how to do the homework for tonight.

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