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Math Movie Network: Percents

percent

The Math Movie Network is back with another tutorial! This week, we’ve been learning all about how to find a percent. A percent means a part of or out of 100. It’s essentially another way to represent a fraction that has a denominator of 100. We’ve been learning about the relationship between decimals and percents. [...]

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Math Movie Network: Exponents and Order of Operations

Exponents

The Math Movie Network is back, bringing you the latest from our sixth grade classroom! This time, some of our experts provide you with a look at how to solve problems with exponents and the order of operations. One of the topics that we’ve been learning all about are exponents. Much like where multiplication is [...]

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Dividing Fractions: Rapping It Up

Reciprocal

We’ve gone from learning about adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals to doing the same operations but now with fractions. We’ve been talking all about important terms like least common multiple and greatest common denominator. Most recently, we came across the word reciprocal while learning how to divide fractions. When learned that in order to [...]

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Dr. Decimal: Removing Decimals from the Divisor

Finished Division Problem

In math, we’ve been learning all about decimals. We’ve learned how to add and subtract with decimals, multiply decimals, and divide decimals. When learning to divide, we did plenty of problems with decimals in the dividend. We learned that when there is a decimal in the dividend, you just need to make sure your decimals [...]

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