2nd Grade Fractions

Partitioning

100

This is what two equal parts are called.

What is halves?

200

This is what three equal parts is called.

What is thirds?

300

This is what four equal parts are called.

What is fourths?

400

What is the name for a figure with 6 equal parts

sixths

500

What is the name of a figure with 8 equal parts?

Eighths

Fractions of a set

100

A pizza is cut into 10 equal slices. If you eat 7 slices, this is the fraction of the pizza you have left.

3/10

200

Lily and her mom decided to bake cupcakes. They made 6 cupcakes. After the cupcakes cooled down, Lily ate 1/2 of them

How much of the cupcakes are left for her brother?

one-half or 3/6

300

This is a set of 6 balls. 3 are of the balls are footballs, 2 are soccer balls, and one is a baseball. What fraction of the balls are footballs?

What is 3 - 6 (three sixth)?

400

You have a chocolate bar divided into 6 equal pieces. You eat 2 pieces, and your friend eats 4 pieces. Together, you ate this fraction of the bar.

6/6 or 1

500

A fraction is equal to this if the numerator and denominator are the same.

1 Whole

Vocabulary

100

What does Fraction mean?

Parts of a whole 

200

What is another word that means splitting into equal parts

Partitioning

300

This term means "the top number in a fraction," telling how many parts we have.

The numerator is the top number in a fraction.

400

This term means "the bottom number in a fraction," telling how many equal parts the whole is divided into.

The denominator is the bottom number in a fraction.

500

Finish this: The smaller the parts,___________

the bigger the pieces.