Understanding Fractions, Improper Fractions, and Mixed Numbers 

To be honest I've lived a very unhappy and unfulfilling life just because of math, to say this changed my life would be and understatement. Thanks Dave.

I am a college student majoring in economics and finance, studying complex economic and financial models. Brushing up my entire math catalogue to sharpen my skills. Just to say, there is absolutely great value in this video series. Thank you for the great content.

I have big troubles with mixed number and improper fractions that I did not properly learn from school. Thank you so much Professo Dave! You made math fun to learn

I’m a 59-year old who lost the plot with maths at school. It’s been great fun picking up the ball again, and fundamental videos like this one have been a great help. Thanks Dave!

a 17 year old watching, i find this super helpful. all my school life ive been struggling, i still am. but i am facing it. thank you so much professor Dave !

Dave, you are seriously saving me. My teacher always explians stuff so the "smart" kids can understand, I always seem to fall behind. Thanks dave My Adblocker is off to you :D

Showing this to my students tomorrow. Very well explained. Just Subscribed.

I never thought that I would learn to love Math in learning it and from answering the checking comprehension. Before I never thought that I could get better at math but due to your videos I am able to realize something really important, thanks Professor Dave.

I do not know the average age of the people who watch this series, but if I had to assume, I would say they're probably a lot younger than me. I am 21, a CS major with an associate degree. I never struggled with math until high school. Math was very tough, and I decided to sleep rather than to attend my final test which resulted in me failing math. I do not regret any of my decisions, I know that now I am a young adult watching a RU-vid video about improper fractions and mixed numbers, and to some individuals that's perhaps pathetic, but I realized I could never excel at this field if I do not start from the very basics. I created a learning schedule with a deadline and everything and I decided to include this series into my schedule. It has been pretty useful. English is not my first language, and hearing some of these terms was insightful.

Can’t believe how easy these actually are. Thank you for your service Dave 🙌🏽

I did my first improper fraction at 24 without help, took me like 25 minutes but I got there tysm. This is the beginning of a journey

Thank you Professor Dave! I am enjoying studying math with the kids and watching your videos

'When we have a fraction like this, we can manipulate it any way we want by simply doing the same thing to the top, or numerator, and the bottom, or denominator'. This explains why students in calculus do things like (x+6)/(x+7) = 6/7

I was only taught to find the common denominator which takes me quite sometime to calculate. What a simple technique! It's faster and I actually understand it. I'm not just following instructions. Thank you!

You're just incredible professor Dave Hats off for teacher like you

Miracle Miracle I am understanding Mathematics!, Thanks Prof Dave

at first this was sooo hard to understand, i watched a couple of videos and then came back and now i understand, i feel ashamed i didn't know the basics but i will keep going

im a senior in highschool preparing for my cet's. this video series is a huge help because my basics aren't very strong, so learning from here is a great place to start. thank you so much professor!

I struggled all thru school with math dropped out in 10th grade. 32 now and getting my hsed thru a tech College and these videos has helped me a ton. I take my math test tomorrow if I pass I get my diploma. Thank you so much Dave

Math makes me feel anxious, but I'm glad to say that my answers were all correct! :) Thank You for helping me build confidence in mathematics.

This is the first time in my life that I've ever answered fraction problems correctly. Thank you so much for your help, I'm sure with these videos I'll pass college algebra.

you teaching math with funny way, thanks professor dave!!

I've forgotten my fractions but to think I'd be so happy after solving the checking comprehension problems is so funny! I'm cheering for myself!

Ok this is where my mind goes 🤯 like literally i watch the pizza prt 5 times and still gets all the questions wrong i need to keep continuing this till i get it

Thank u very much for the awesome session professor Dave !

I enjoyed Math in high school, but never chased it ever since. I’m now a software engineer and want to learn all the way until calculus, and so far this has been great

I finally understand division thanks to you

Your videos are great, thank you professor Dave for your great work.

I need to find something to help my frustrated 4th grader get his mind around these concepts. I like it visually, and he's upbeat. I think it goes a little fast though, and as I'm watching it thinking how my son will receive it, I imagine him getting overwhelmed. I'll have to certainly have him pause it, rewind and rewatch in segments ...or should I say fractions?!!

This is where everything went down hill but I finally understand.

Thank you now I understand improper fractions better. It just seemed not logical before

Do you know how mad I am to realize its this simple, I feel like my elementary years were wasted on complex explanation. I have been bamboozled and am only now figuring out fractions.

Thank You. For giving me knowledge today, and for the rest of my life, professor dave.

my man can teach what would take an entire term in primary to go over, in 6 minutes.

thank you so much for helping us all ! amazing work !

Thank you, professor!

Thanks d.dave you make math something lovely to learn

No puedo creer que vi su video tres veces y pude obtener todas las respuesta del test correctamente. honestamente estaba en zeros. MUCHISIMAS GRACIAS

Wow, u blown my mind, u solve the biggest mystery that my teacher never answered when i was in junior high school😮

Dave you are legendary!

I'm glad I found these math lessons.

Thanks Professor Dave!

for converting mixed fractions to improper fraction example: 3/1/2 is a mixed number 1. 2*1 is 2 2. 2+3 is 5 3.7/2 to convert the improper fraction back to a mixed number: 1.5 divide by 2 2.we know that 2*2=4 so: 3 2/7 -6 1 3.list them: 3 a c 2/7 -6 1 b a/b/c 3/1/2

im 16 in homeschooling (Junior) Im looking to get my GED early and studying to qualify for the test. Ive never been good at math so revisiting basic math and it is helping a ton. 100% love these vidz

I actually never learnet this, it's really useful and surprisingly interesting :)

This is how math should be taught in school!

Thanks for sharing videos.

Your way of teaching is very good I have no words to praise you , u even makes biggest concept simple i enjoy learning at you❤

Thank you now i understand the fractions and mixed fraction

This is around where I left off in school, well, maybe a little higher but I will start from scratch.

Well Explained Sir.......

Finished the exercises at the end, it took me a while to get the answers but I'm happy that at least the second one, I got all the correct answers. Math always been hard for me but I feel so happy when I get one answer right😍

You're awesome thank you so much for teaching us.😄😄😄😄

Thanks!

first thank you mr.dave seconde can i ask you what books you are recommanded for me for the first steep with video

Thank you so much, long time without practice fractions, amazing work thank you so much.

Thank You

I eat pizza 16/8

Omg I'm just learning English. I can understand all that he says but it's really difficult to pay attention at both things, language and maths, JAJAJA. Absolutely a good exercise, I'll write here when I finally get it.

Thank you 🙏

Good explanation

I’ve always struggled with math therefore avoided it 30 years old Now and am making it a goal of mine to understand it better

can we conclude mixed fraction as a part of whole? i think so. expecting your answer.

professor dave you are savin my life

U are great sir

I'm almost a high school student and ever since 3rd grade I've struggled so much with math to the point I got sick of it. It's been a desire of mine to be good at math for a while, and I've taken the decision to start math from scratch.

4:33 I can see saying 6/8 leaves us with two slices left over, but how does reducing that to 3/4 still mean you have two left over? Wouldn't that be 1 left over? Does it just mean the one slice is a big as the previous two slices put together? So it's essentially the same because the proportions are equal? We would still say 1 slice is left over though. Is it a good idea to reduce the fraction when the original equation is dealing with x/8 slices? When the chef is used to 8ths wont he be confused by 3/4?

I’m having a really hard time wrapping my head around the whole converting fractions to mixed and improper.

Good job

thank professor dave

Amazing 🎉

Will you believe if i said that each episode take from me over than half hour because of the language ? I'm not a native english speaker but i'm trying to learn with Professor Dave so i have to tanslate a lot of words so i can understand . Thank you Professor because you're teaching me maths and english at the same time . 😅❤

lol the intro makes me laugh agree?

Thanks it was hard i had rewatch it but i will be geneous some day

You’re doing great here, but it kind of lost me when you reduced at 4:38 because I couldn’t quite understand how and why you did that and which was the result I should write down. I am a studant with dyscalculia so understanding this kind of stuff is harder to me...

Thanks professor....

I have dyscalculia. I managed to get the improper fractions into big numbers, but the top number was wrong when I tried the mixed numbers to improper grammar fractions questions.

Wonderful

I don't have any ideas of this lol thank you professor Dave I regretted cause I didn't try to understand it and I wasn't taught well. I guess I'll have to learn more even though I'm 15 years old now

After pretending to understand all the fractions stuff throughout my highschool years... I can finally say with honesty, " i understand fractions, improper fractions and mixed fractions."

I understand sir ️ ☺️

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No way I was actually having problems with this bro 💀

Thanks buddy

Thank you now my kids know the fraction 📕😄👩 thank you again

Wow, I finally understood improper fractions and mixed numbers. Thank you!!!

I love your videos

When can you do a series on English and how to develop new vocabulary?

Amazing

im homeschooled because i cant go to real school due to stupid decisions i made before and now i can properly learn what i couldnt in 3rd grade thanks to you also sorry for the sentence not making sense i didnt learn punctuation enough to make proper use of it

And on the flipside, is there an elegant formula for improper to mixed. Maybe something along the lines of \frac{A}{B} = B in A \frac{A mod B}{B}

This is better teaching me then my teacher teaching me what 2+2 is

Hello Dominos? Yes I’d like 30 eighths of pizza please.

I somehow did the calculations right but failed to properly understand the pizza example. :")

Sir if we explain 2/3 in diagram we can easily show it in a single picture but sir how to explain 3/2 in a single picture ? It's confusing, please clear it!

Nice

1:06 im a little bit confused here, right it says 1/8 right? then that means should only be 7 slices of pizza there but it shows all 8 slices because when he showed 2/8 of the pizza it removed two slices but earlier at 1/8 none were removed.

Am I right in assuming the formula for converting from mixed to improper is A * \frac{B}{C} = \frac{A * B + C}{C}?

hit the like button to this comment if you randomly decided to recall some math in 2024 (you finished school a long ago)

good vid