Fractions 1
What does the denominator of a fraction tell you?
How many parts are in a whole.
1/4 + 1/4 =
1/2
Myra and 5 friends are equally sharing 3 personal pan pizzas.
How much pizza does each person get?
3/6 = 1/2
What does the numerator of a fraction tell you?
How many parts of the whole that you have.
Mary has 4 small pans of lasagna. If she cuts each pan equally into thirds, how many servings of lasagna will she have?
12 servings
Sam and Roy are both taking a walk. Sam walked 2 1/2 miles and Roy walked 3 2/3 miles. How far did the boys walk altogether?
6 1/6 miles
Sam and Roy are both taking a walk. Sam walked 2 1/2 miles and Roy walked 3 2/3 miles. How much farther did Roy walk than Sam did?
1 1/6 miles
Susie has 3/4 cup of syrup. If she pours 1/5 cup of it on her pancakes, how much syrup is left?
11/20 cup
Susie has 3/4 cup of syrup. If she pours 1/5 of it on her pancakes, how much syrup did she use?
3/20 cup
9/10 + 1/2=
14/10 = 1 4/10= 1 2/5
Juan has 3/4 carton of ice cream. He and 3 friends shares it equally. What fraction of the carton does each person get?
3/16 of the carton
8 1/3 - 4 5/9=
3 7/9
Explain without working this problem how you should know that 2 1/2 x 2/5 < 2 1/2.
The reason I know this is because 2/5 is less than 1, so I'm only taking part of the 2 1/2.
One fifth grade class has 24 students. Last Friday 2/3 of the class paid to wear their hats. How many students wore hats last Friday in that class?
16 students
Mariah lives 2 1/4 miles from her school. Edwardo lives 8 1/5 miles from the same school. How much farther does Edwardo live from school than Mariah does?
5 19/20 miles
What is the Least Common Denominator for the fractions 5/6 and 7/8?
24 is the least common denominator
6: 6,12,18,24
8: 8,16,24
Mr. Martin has 32 students in his class. 5/8 of his class are boys. One day he noticed that 1/2 of his boys wore MVI Eagle shirts. How many boys in his class wore an MVI Eagles shirt that day?
10 boys
Evaluate : 6(2÷ 1/2) - 2(5/8 - 1/4)=
23 1/4
Mrs. Breedlove randomly chose 99 students for a project. 5/9 of the students were boys. How many girls were chosen?
44 girls
A chef is preparing for a banquet. He is going to make large pans of chicken parmesan. If he divides each pan into 1/10 pan servings, how many whole pans will he need to serve 125 people?
Think, 1 ÷ 1/10 = 10 servings so 125÷ 10=12.5 so he will need 13 pans