Multiplying 2 Mixed Numbers

Mixed drinks — because they’re prettier than mixed numbers. https://pixabay.com/photos/cocktail-drink-glass-cocktails-3329214/

Multiplying a fraction or a whole number times a mixed number is easy: You break the mixed number apart and multiply the fraction or whole number times each part. (I’ve talked about this in articles here and here) Multiplying 2 mixed numbers, however, has been problematical.

Recently, I was working with a student who needed some advanced training in fractions. We were working a problem that had us multiplying 20…