Math Notes: Simplifying Improper Fractions (AKA Improper Fractions Converted to Mixed Numbers)

Remember that the fraction bar means "divide."

Rewrite the improper fraction as a division problem. (It is "top heavy" so it falls over. Timber!) The numerator goes "in the house," and the denominator is the divisor.

Divide.

The remainder is the new numerator over the same divisor. Simply that fraction if possible.