Dividing With Fractions: Missing Factor Method

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Year Published: 1970

Complete Record: Illustrates, through an animated story, how to divide fractions by considering them as multiplication problems with a missing factor. Shows Lola, the musk ox learning how to divide fractions by fractions with the help of her friends Arthur the fox. Explains that when the answer is not a factor of the product, the product can be multiplied by identity elements of the numerator and denominator of the known factor.