1. Picture This! Reducing Fractions
with a multiplication table

2. and want to reduce it to lowest terms,
If you have 8 12
and want to reduce it to lowest terms,

3. you might know to divide top and bottom by 4,
so you get 2 3

4. But what if you didn’t know how to do that?
You can just take your fraction and …

5. Grab a multiplication table

6. Find the numerator AND denominator in one of the columns

7. And look left

8. reduces to 8 12 2 3

9. But what if you saw 8 and 12 here?
Look left

10. You see 4 and 6 8 12 4 6 =
So far, so good

11. Now find the 4 and 6 in the same column
Look left

12. reduces to 4 6 2 3

13. Whatever you do to the bottom
you have to do to the top 2

14. 2 2 8 12 4 6 2 3 = =