TY  - BOOK
AU  - Powley,Linda
AU  - Weiskopf,Catherine
TI  - Adventures in mathopolis: parting is such sweet sorrow : fractions and decimals 
SN  - 9780764141713
AV  - QA117 .P69 2009
U1  - 513.2/6 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Hauppauge, N.Y.
PB  - Barron's Educational Series
KW  - Fractions
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Decimal fractions
N1  - U; 1000
; Lexile; U
; Raz-Plus
N2  - In this brand-new Adventures in Mathopolis story, the town's befuddled Mayor Lostis Marbles is having all kinds of trouble dealing with fractions and decimals--and with a new dilemma: how to get out of a locked safe before it's too late!. This time superheroes Silver Splitter and Dixie Dot come to the rescue, and readers who follow this fun-filled story will learn how to solve the many mysteries of fractions and decimals along the way. They discover easy ways to-- Understand proper, improper, and mixed numbers Find the least common multiple in fractions Add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions Understand decimals Convert from decimals to fractions, and back again This amusing Mathopolis story is enhanced with clever black-and-white illustrations. Kids learn along with Mayor Lostis Marbles and his gang that working with fractions and decimals can be fun
ER  -