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When you read a mixed number out loud, you say the whole number, the word and, then the fraction. The mixed number 2+1/4 is read as two and one fourth.
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: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)College students have had many years of high school and perhaps college experience in which multiplication has been the implied operation in concatenations such as 4x, with little classroom experience with mixed numbers, so that for them, when returning to mixed number forms, they apply their recent knowledge of multiplication as the implied operation in concatenation to the 'new' situation of mixed numbers.
College students have had many years of high school and perhaps college experience in which multiplication has been the implied operation in concatenations such as 4x, with little classroom experience with mixed numbers, so that for them, when returning to mixed number forms, they apply their recent knowledge of multiplication as the implied operation in concatenation to the 'new' situation of mixed numbers.