Dividing Fractions Made Easy
How to Divide Fractions?
Dividing fractions is the final operation to learn in fractions before starting order of operations involving fractions. To learn how to divide fractions students need to understand the concept of reciprocal.
One number is the reciprocal of another if their multiplication is 1. For example 1/2 is reciprocal of 2 as if we multiply 2 by 1/2 we get 1 as the answer. Below is a lesson followed by a worksheet on reciprocals.
Once students get the idea of reciprocals then its very easy to divide one fraction with another. Actually to divide two fractions we need to find the reciprocal of the fraction which is right to the divide sign (The Divisor) and then multiply the reciprocal to the fraction on the left of the divide sign (The Dividend).
The concept is explained in the following lessons on dividing fractions:
Hope that above lessons will make students able to solve fraction division problems in the following worksheet:
