Page 110-114
New Words
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.
numerators
(分子)
11.
separately
(分別地)
12.
complained
(抱怨)
13.
inquisitively
(好問的)
14.
delighted
(歡天喜地)
15.
denominators
(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.
a dirty mark, when a
person touches pencil lines
they make a dirty mark 
2.
a small part of the whole thing,
one number written over
another number
3.
closed something very hard
and made a loud sound
4.
a feeling that everything is
really bad or someone did
something very horrible
5.
a word game where you
are given clues and have
to write the answers
6.
doing something in a way
that shows you are very
interested to know
about something
7.
told someone that you
were not happy about
something
8.
VERY happy about something
9.
when a piece of paper
has been broken
10.
many pieces of something
that you find in books,
you write on them
11.
thinking something can’t
be true, thinking something
is not possible
12.
a sentence written with
numbers in math
13.
saw something, suddenly knew
something or someone was there
14.
doing something suddenly
15.
looked at someone in an
angry way
16.
feeling sad because a good
thing didn’t happen
17.
the top number
of a fraction
18.
the bottom number
of a fraction
19.
done one by one,
not done together,
things are not in the same place
20.
making something smaller
than before, when fractions
are made simpler
Pg110 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
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