Journal on Multiplying Fractions

1. 3/4 * 5/2
This is a 1 by 1 squared.

3/4

5/2 First you must create a box that is divided into 4 equal parts
horizontally and shade 3 of the equal parts which represents ¾. Next you must make a vertical
box that is divided into 2 equal parts and shade in 5 of them, since we cannot shade in 5 boxes
out of the two, we must add 3 more vertical boxes. We must continue to add to the orginal
diagram. The new diagram represents
3/4*5/2:

3/4

5/2 Now that we have 5 boxes out of 2 shaded in, we count up the boxes that
are shaded in. In this case, there are 15 shaded which gives us the numerator, and the original
box was out of 8. So, our answer would be 15/8.