Vocab
This is the number on the top of a fraction.
Numerator
If you shade 1 out of 4 equal parts of a square, what fraction is shaded?
What is 1/4?
You eat 1 out of 2 halves of an apple. What fraction of the apple did you eat?
What is 1/2?
Which is greater: 1/3 or 1/4?
What is 1/3?
If a whole is cut into 2 equal parts, what fraction is one part?
What is 1/2?
This is the number of equal parts the whole is divided into.
What is the Denominator
If you shade 3 out of 5 equal parts, what fraction is shaded?
What is 3/5?
You share a sandwich cut into 3 equal parts with two friends. Each person gets this fraction.
What is 1/3?
True or False: 1/2 is the same as 2/4.
What is True?
You take 2 parts out of 3 equal parts. What’s the fraction?
What is 2/3?
If a fraction has a numerator of 1, it's called what type of fraction?
What is a unit fraction?
A pizza is cut into 8 equal slices. If you eat 2 slices, what fraction of the pizza did you eat?
What is 2/8?
You drink 2 out of 4 equal parts of a juice box. What fraction did you drink?
What is 2/4?
Which is less: 1/6 or 1/2?
What is 1/6?
Draw a shape and split it into 4 equal parts. Shade 3 of them. What fraction did you shade?
What is 3/4?
This word means to break into equal parts.
What is partition?
You split a chocolate bar into 6 equal parts. What fraction is one part?
What is 1/6?
A recipe calls for 1/4 cup of sugar. What kind of fraction is 1/4?
What is a unit fraction?
You have 3/4 of a candy bar. Your friend has 2/4. Who has more?
What is you (3/4 is more)?
Your pizza has 6 slices. You eat 5. Write a fraction to show how much you ate.
What is 5/6?
Give an example of two fractions with the same denominator and explain how the numerators show which is larger.
What is 2/5 and 4/5 — 4 parts is more than 2 parts when the parts are the same size?
Can you shade 1/5 of a shape that’s divided into 4 equal parts? Why or why not?
What is no, because 1/5 means five equal parts are needed, not four?
You run 2/5 of a mile on Monday and 1/5 of a mile on Tuesday. Write a fraction to show how far you ran altogether and explain your thinking.
What is 3/5, because 2/5 + 1/5 = 3/5?
You and your friend each ate part of a pie. You ate 4/8 and your friend ate 3/6. Who ate more? Prove your answer.
What is neither; 4/8 = 1/2 and 3/6 = 1/2, so you both ate the same amount.
You ate 5/8 of a sandwich and your friend ate 1/8. How much did you both eat together, and what part is left?
What is 6/8 eaten, 2/8 left?