This math skill teaches how to locate a point on a number line represented by an improper fraction. The skill involves identifying the whole numbers and fractions of a whole to determine the position as an improper fraction by counting total parts beyond a whole number.
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Number lines and improper fractions
Test your understanding of improper fractions on a number line by practicing it! Work through the below exercises to use it in practice.
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This dot is on the number line, but not on a whole number. Let's find an improper fraction that best describes where it is.
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We are past the first whole, so we have one whole.
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But each whole is split up into 6 sixths, and for an improper fraction we are just going to count all the sixths, even though we'll have more than 6 of them.
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Our dot is another four sixths of a whole along.
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So adding them together, the dot is at ten sixths, which is an improper fraction.