{"id":242,"date":"2009-04-04T20:17:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T12:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:14:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:14:39","slug":"newsletter-19-fraction-simplifying-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/newsletter-19-fraction-simplifying-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #19 : Fraction Simplifying Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>This is a back-issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/newsletter\/\">this website&#8217;s newsletter<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>My plan for Dr Mike&#8217;s Math Games for Kids over the next couple of months is to build a big section all about fractions. The reasons for this are simple enough&#8230; First of all, the sections on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/times-tables.html\">times tables<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/magic-squares.html\">magic squares<\/a> look a bit lonely all by themselves in the menu&#8230; \ud83d\ude42 More importantly, I know a lot of parents and teachers are looking for fractions information online, and this topic is under-represented on my site.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting with a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/fraction-simplifying-puzzle.html\">Fraction Simplifying Puzzle<\/a>. I got the idea for this puzzle from a bulletin board, and made up a few variants so that it will be useful for more different levels of student. This is about the third fractions game on the site.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you find it useful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This is a back-issue of this website&#8217;s newsletter] My plan for Dr Mike&#8217;s Math Games for Kids over the next couple of months is to build a big section all about fractions. The reasons for this are simple enough&#8230; First of all, the sections on times tables and magic squares look a bit lonely all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/newsletter-19-fraction-simplifying-puzzles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Newsletter #19 : Fraction Simplifying Puzzles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}