Lessons 40 & 41
The top number of a fraction that shows the number of parts described; the number of parts being shaded or counted.
What is the numerator?
The size of a surface or the number of the unit squares that fill this space.
What is area?
Separating a total into equal parts or groups.
What is division?
A flipped fraction, wherein the numerator and denominator are flipped.
What is a reciprocal?
A fudge company makes 4 pounds of fudge. A worker separates the fudge into packages of 1/4 of a pound of fudge each. How many packages does he make?
What is 16 packages?
The total number of equal parts that represent a whole.
What is the denominator?
A whole number and a fraction represented together.
What is a mixed number?
A numerical quantity that is not a whole number.
What is a fraction?
Find the reciprocal of 7/10.
What is 10/7?
Solve:
After a party, 1/3 of a pizza remains. You eat 1/2 of the remaining pizza. What fraction of the pizza did you eat?
What is 1/6?
A fraction in which the numerator is greater than the denominator.
What is an improper fraction?
Find the area of a rectangle that has a width of 3/7 and a length of 4/11.
What is 12/77 sq. units?
A fraction that has a numerator of 1.
What is a unit fraction?
Solve 3/4 ÷ 6.
What is 1/8?
Solve:
You had 9 problems to solve for your homework. You already solved 2/3 of the problems. How many of the problems have you solved?
What is 6?
1/2 * 24
What is 12?
Solve 2/3 ÷ 5/7.
What is 14/15?
Solve 1/3 ÷ 7.
What is 7/3 or 2 1/3
Solve 7 ÷ 1/4.
What is 28?
Solve:
You have 8 pints of milk. If you drink 1/4 of a pint of milk each day, how long will the 8 pints of milk last you?
What is 32 days?
7/15 * 5
What is 35/15 or 7/3 or 2 1/3
Solve 3/12 ÷ 8/10.
What is 30/96 or 10/32 or 5/16?
Solve 1/6 ÷ 9.
What is 1/54?
Solve 4 ÷ 1/4.
What is 16?
Solve:
You have 1/2 of a pound of flour to put equally into two containers. How much flour will be in each container?
What is 1/4?