Vocabulary
This tells you how many parts are being counted
Numerator
1/3
One third
1/3 of 6
2
Avery has 2 blue marbles. One sixth of Avery's marbles are blue. How many marbles does Avery have?
12
This fraction has a 1 as its numerator
Unit Fraction
1/4
One fourth
1/4 of 12
3
Waylon's dad buy a pie that has 8 slices. Waylon wants to eat 1 slice of pie for dessert. What fraction of the pie will be left.
7/8
It has a numerator greater than its denominator
A fraction greater than one
1/2
One half
1/6 of 24
4
Josh shares 2 oranges equally with two friends. How much of an orange does each friend get?
2 thirds of an orange
Names the total number of parts
Denominator
1/5
One fifth
1/2 of 8
4
Mackenzie had 5 cookies to share evenly with 6 friends. Each friend eats half of a cookie first. How can they evenly share the rest of the cookies?
2 equal parts
Halves
1/10
One tenth
1/10 of 100
100
Aileen has one pizza with 12 pieces. Aileen shares the pizza with her friend. If they each ate 2/12 of the pizza. What fraction of the pizza is left?
8/12