Page 110 – 114
New Words
1.
disgust
2.
torn
3.
noticed
4.
abruptly
5.
smudge
6.
fractions
7.
reducing
8.
glared
9.
equation
10.
numerator (s)
11.
separately
12.
complained
13.
inquisitively
14.
delighted
15.
denominator (s)
16.
disbelief
17.
disappointed
18.
sheets of paper
19.
crossword puzzle
20.
slammed shut
Words and Chinese
1.
disgust
(厭煩)
2.
torn
(撕掉)
3.
noticed
(注意)
4.
abruptly
(猛然)
5.
smudge
(漬痕)
6.
fractions
(分數)
7.
reducing
(約分)
8.
glared
(怒目而視)
9.
equation
(方程式)
10.
numerator (s)
(分子)
11.
separately
(分別地)
12.
complained
(抱怨)
13.
inquisitively
(好問的)
14.
delighted
(歡天喜地)
15.
denominator (s)
(分母)
16.
disbelief
(不可置信的)
17.
disappointed
(失望的)
18.
sheets of paper
(一張紙)
19.
crossword puzzle
(字謎遊戲)
20.
slammed shut
(猛烈地關上)
Definitions
1.
smudge
a dirty mark,
when a person
touches pencil lines
they make
a dirty mark 
2.
fractions
a small part
of the whole thing,
one number
written over
another number
3.
slammed shut
closed something
very hard
and made
a loud sound
4.
disgust
a feeling
that everything
is really bad
or someone
did something
very horrible
5.
crossword puzzle
a word game
where you
are given clues
and have to
write the answers
6.
inquisitively
doing something
in a way
that shows
you are very
interested
to know about
something
7.
complained
told someone
that you
were not happy
about something
8.
delighted
VERY happy
about something
9.
torn
when
a piece of paper
has been broken
10.
sheets of paper
many pieces
of something
that you find
in books,
you write
on them
11.
disbelief
thinking
something can’t
be true,
thinking something
is not possible
12.
equation
a sentence
written with numbers
in math
13.
noticed
saw something,
suddenly knew
something or someone
was there
14.
abruptly
doing something
suddenly
15.
glared
looked at someone
in an
angry way
16.
disappointed
feeling sad
because
a good thing
didn’t happen
17.
numerators
the top number
of a fraction
18.
denominators
the bottom number
of a fraction
19.
separately
done
one by one,
not done together,
things are not
in the same place
20.
reducing
making something
smaller than before,
when fractions
are made simpler
Story
Part of p.110
already read
in previous lesson…
“…take half of something
it means you divide
by two.
You divide three
by two
and four
by three.”
Bradley started
to write that down.
“No,
of means times,”
said the lion.
“You have to
multiply everything.”
“First
you have to
reverse the nominators,”
said the fox.
“You don’t reverse,
you inverse,”
corrected
the mother cocker spaniel.
“I think
you have to find
a common denumerator,”
said the elephant.
“Not for multiplication,”
said the hippopotamus.
“That’s only for addition.”
“Multiplication
is the same as addition,”
said the fox,
“only faster.”
“You cancel out
the threes,”
said the kangaroo.
“You always
cancel out threes.”
“You multiply
the threes,”
said the lion.
Pg110-114 for lesson
starts here
Pg110 (bottom half)
Bradley kept erasing
and rewriting
and erasing
and rewriting
until there was
nothing but
a big black smudge
covering his paper.
On top of
the smudge,
he tried to write
3 × 3 = 9,
but as he did so,
his pencil
tore a hole
through the paper.
“The answer
can’t be nine,”
said Ronnie.
“If you start out
with fractions,
you have to
end up
with fractions.”
Bradley slammed
the book shut.
“None of you
know what
you’re talking about!”
he cried out
in disgust.
He took the book,
paper, and pencil,
and walked
down the hall
to the dining room.
Pg111
His mother
was sitting
at the table
working a crossword puzzle
from the newspaper.
He plopped down
next to her
and sighed.
She looked at him
inquisitively.
“I can’t figure out
how to do
my homework,”
he complained.
“Will you help me?”
His mother smiled.
“I’d be delighted.
Let me see.”
He pushed
his arithmetic book
in front of her.
“Page forty-three.”
She opened
the book
to that page
and looked at
Bradley’s torn,
smudged paper.
“Okay.
First
let me clear away
this newspaper
so we can have
a nice, neat place
to work.
While I do that,
I want you
to get
a clean sheet
of paper.”
“I don’t have
any more paper.
This is all
I brought home.”
“There’s some paper
in your father’s desk.
Get a sharp pencil, too.”
He looked at her
in disbelief.
He wasn’t allowed
to touch anything
on his father’s desk.
She nodded.
Bradley felt
a little scared
as he walked into
the extra bedroom
which his father
used as an office.
He opened
the top drawer
of the old oak desk
and carefully took out
a pencil and
a piece of paper.
He shut the drawer,
looked around,
then hurried back
to his mother.
She smiled at him.
He sat down
and wrote,
much neater
this time:
Pg112
Bradley Chalkers
Homework
Arithmetic
Page 43
Red Hill School
Room 12
Mrs. Ebbel’s class
Last seat, last row
Black eye
“You have to
put all that,”
he explained,
“in case it gets lost.”
She read
the first question
aloud.
“‘What is three-fourths
of two-thirds?’ “
He shrugged.
“Okay,”
she said,
“the first thing
you want to do
is write the equation.”
He still didn’t know
what to do.
She wrote it for him.
“Whenever you see
the word of,
it means you multiply,”
she explained.
“Of means times,”
he said.
“Right,”
said his mother.
That was what
the lion had said.
“Now you can
cancel out
the threes,”
said his mother.
That was what
the kangaroo
had said.
You always
cancel out threes.
Pg113
Neither of them
noticed that Claudia
was standing
behind them,
watching.
“That’s not how
you’re supposed
to learn it,”
she said abruptly.
Bradley turned around
and glared at her.
“You have to explain
why you cancel them,”
said Claudia.
“And they
don’t call it
canceling.
It’s called
dividing by one.”
“I just know
the way
I learned it,”
said Mrs. Chalkers.
“If you want,
I can show you,
Bradley,”
said Claudia.
He looked at
his mother,
then back at Claudia,
then at his mother.
“She knows the way
they’re teaching it now,”
said his mother.
“You’ll help me?”
Bradley asked his sister.
“Sure, why not?
I got nothing better
to do.”
Mrs. Chalkers stood up,
and Claudia
took her place.
“Don’t do it for him,”
said Bradley’s mother.
“Make sure
he knows
how to do it
himself.”
Claudia worked patiently
with Bradley
for the rest of
the afternoon.
When he said
he understood something,
she made him
explain it to her.
That was harder.
He understood it
when she did it,
but then
he had trouble
when he tried
to do it himself.
By dinnertime,
they were only
a little more
than halfway
through.
Bradley wanted Claudia
to help him
after dinner, too,
but she had
her own homework
to do.
“You know
how to do it,”
she told him.
“You can
do it yourself.”
Pg114
“I need help,”
he complained.
“I’ll help you,”
said his father.
“You will?”
“Let’s go
to my office.
We can work
at my desk.”
Bradley couldn’t
believe it.
They worked together.
Bradley was surprised
by how much
his father knew.
He made
all the hard parts
seem easy.
Bradley was
a little disappointed
by how quickly
they finished.
He had liked
working with
his father.
He brought
his finished homework
back to his room.
“Oh, I get it,
Bradley,”
said Bartholomew.
“You multiply
the numerators
and denominators
separately.
But I still
don’t understand
reducing.”
“It’s easy,”
said Bradley.
“Here,
let me show you
again.”
The End
ThEnd