You
need to know how to work with ordinary fractions because algebraic fractions
follow those same rules.
If you cannot easily add fixed-number fractions, you won't
be able to work with algebraic fractions such as
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If ''algebraic fractions'' is one of the topics indicated on your pretest-results letter, you will most likely be working through a fractions exercise in the Mathematics Center. You are far from alone in this situation. You will have a lot of company! (Maybe more than you would have wished - MaC can be really crowded during ''fractions season.'')
If you have already begun your work in the Mathematics Center with topics in the first algebra module, you will know that we offer a brief ''topic pretest'' before you begin. That is because the algebra topics are grouped, and it is possible that a particular student will not need to do all the topics in a particular group.
So here's our reason for writing this web page. We hope some students may be able to recall enough about fractions on their own, by making use of this web page, to ''test out of'' the fractions topic entirely in the Mathematics Center.
Even if you don't ''test out'' of the fractions topic in MaC, knowing something about fractions ahead of time will surely make your fractions work easier in MaC when you get there. You'll need to take the time to review the fractions topic in the Mathematics Center, because in your calculus class there just isn't enough time to treat this topic separately.
So, choose where you'd like to begin.