Vocabulary
To take apart or breakdown
What is decomposing?
What happens when the denominators are the same?
Freeze them
Zayne had 4/5 apples. He gave away 2/5. How much is left?
2/5
What is evaporation?
A fraction where the numerator is >1
What is an improper fraction?
What are whole numbers?
Meena bought 1/4 bag of marshmallows. Daven gave her 3/4 of a bag of marshmallows. How many marshmallows did they have altogether?
4/4
The second step in the Water Cycle
What is condensation?
A number made of a whole number and a fraction
What is a Mixed Number?
Make sure the denominators are the same
How do you decompose the fraction 12/18?
11/18 + 1/18
4/18 + 8/18
1/18 +1/18 +1/18 + 1/18 +1/18 +1/18 + 6/18
10/18 +2/18
7/18 + 5/18
The third step in the Water Cycle
Precipitation
I show how many equal parts the whole is made of.
What is a denominator?
What do we call it when the numerator and denominator are the same?
a whole
Yazmine had 12/12 of a bag of candy. After eating some of it she had 7/12 left over. How much candy did she eat?
5/12
What drives the Water Cycle?
Gravity and the sun's energy
I join together many parts into a whole.
What is addition?
Which strategy can we use to add or subtract fractions?
There were 9/20 of a bag of potatoes. Henry gave away part of it. If the part he gave away took out 4/12, how much was left over?
5/12
Name the three states of matter that water moves through during the Water Cycle
liquid, gas, solid