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IDK, OP, it's Greek to me! If I were taking 6th grade math, I could probably make more sense of it. What does the colon ( : ) mean?
I think, that if this is a work sheet to practice what they've been working on in class for a couple of days, then it wouldn't be too hard. It's just practicing skills they learned in class. Or should have learned, if they were paying attention.
Why, was your child complaining? Have him or her go through 1 problem, and do it step by step, and show you how it's done. Then when they're done with the first one, say, "I'm not sure if I get it. Let's see you do the next one". Repeat, as they work their way down the page. Then say, "Oh, I think I"m getting it now!"
That's not how they did math, when I was in school, at any rate. It does look kinda scary, but again, if I'd been through a couple of class sessions of it, step by step, I could probably do it.
looks to me like simple ratio calculations which are effectively applied multiplication or division questions.
When I was that age, a slide rule was the ticket for these types of calculation questions. Still is, as far as I'm concerned.
But no doubt kids these days get to use electronic calculators to avoid the drudgery of having to do the calculations by hand and slide rules are a forgotten tool.
No. It's the same idea as equivalent fractions. Like, one half is the same as two fourths or fifty hundredths. 11 years old is what, fifth or sixth grade? That's a normal skill for that level.
No. It's the same idea as equivalent fractions. Like, one half is the same as two fourths or fifty hundredths. 11 years old is what, fifth or sixth grade? That's a normal skill for that level.
From what I've seen in neighbor's kids "homework" … either from public schools or from several home-schoolers around here … where the parents are assisting their kids on these subjects ...
multiplication and division are 3rd grade topics and fractions are taught in 4th grade. By the time the kids reach 5th grade, "equivalent fractions" are "old stuff" from the year before.
Agreed... not difficult, but there are many more "techniques" the kids learn now such that my kids have many different approaches to the same concept.
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Repeat, as they work their way down the page. Then say, "Oh, I think I"m getting it now!" 
