Basic Fractions

by Jerry Kaplan

BASIC FRACTIONS



This book consists of 38 evenly paced lessons written at a low reading level for easy comprehension. Each lesson has:

• A single key concept

• Real-life word problems

• Examples, illustrations, and exercise questions

• Each exercise section has two levels of practice

• Guided practice with hints

• Independent practice



Contents include: equivalent fractions, simplifying fractions, working with mixed numbers, finding the least common denominator, using fractions in the four operations and in word problems.

179 pages, Paperback

Published March 28, 2024

About the author

Kaplan is widely known as a serial entrepreneur, technical innovator, bestselling author, and futurist. He co-founded four Silicon Valley startups, two of which became publicly traded companies. His best-selling non-fiction novel "Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure" was selected by Business Week as one of the top ten business books of the year, was optioned to Sony Pictures, and is available in Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguese. Kaplan has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business Week, Red Herring, and Upside, and is a frequent public speaker.

Kaplan is currently a Fellow at The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. He also teaches Philosophy, Ethics, and Impact of Artificial Intelligence in the Computer Science Department, Stanford University. He holds a BA (1972) from the University of Chicago in History and Philosophy of Science, and an MSE (1975) and PhD (1979) in Computer and Information Science, specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics, from the University of Pennsylvania.