Equivalent/Comparing Fractions
Which fractions are equivalent to 1/2? Write them on your whiteboard.
a. 5/10 b. 4/6 c. 8/12 d. 4/8 e. 2/4 f. 3/9
What are 5/10, 4/8, and 2/4?
Sam cut 3/4 of a piece of ribbon that was 2 inches long. How many inches of the original piece of ribbon were left after the cut?
What is 1 1/4 inches?
What is 5 x 3/4? Express your answer as an improper fraction and as an equivalent mixed number.
What is 15/4 or 3 3/4?
Lori ran 20/100 mile. How many tenths of a mile did she run?
What is 2/10?
Mrs. Grenham ran intervals at the high school track. If she ran 1 lap, it is 1/4 of a mile. If she ran 6 laps, how far did she run in total?
What is 6/4 or 1 1/2 miles.
Compare 5/6 and 7/8. Write an expression using <, >, or = to show your answer.
What is 5/6 < 7/8?
Which sums are equivalent to 7/10?
a. 3/10 + 4/10 b. 7/5 + 7/5 c. 2/5 + 5/5 d. 3/5 + 4/5 e. 1/10 + 6/10
What are (a) 3/10 + 4/10 and (e) 1/10 + 6/10?
Mark bought 3 packages of grapes. Each package weighed 7/8 pound. How many pounds of grapes did Mark buy? Express you answer as both an improper fraction and as an equivalent mixed number.
What is 21/8 or 2 5/8 pounds?
Find the value of n in the following equation. 3/10 + 45/100 = n
What is 75/100?
Last week, Meg bought 1 3/4 pounds of fruit at the market. This week, she buys four times as many pounds of fruit as last week. In pounds, how much fruit does Meg buy this week?
What is 7 pounds?
Which expression is equivalent to 6 x 2/3?
a. 3 x 1/3 b. 8 x 1/3 c. 4 x 1/3 d. 12 x 1/3
What is 12 x 1/3?
Gina has 5 2/6 feet of silver ribbon and 2 4/6 feet of gold ribbon. How much more silver ribbon does Gina have than gold ribbon?
What is 2 4/6 feet?
Matthew walks 5/8 mile to the bus stop each morning. How far will he walk in 5 days?
What is 25/8 mile or 3 1/8 mile?
Find the difference. 63/100 - 2/10 = n
What is 43/100?
An artist is covering a tabletop with square tiles. So far, she has put blue tiles on 21/100 of the tabletop and silver tiles on 3/10 of it. How much more of the tabletop needs to be tiled?
What is 49/100?
Plant heights: Tomato 2/3 Pepper 5/12 Bean 3/6
Put the plants in order from shortest to tallest.
What is bean (3/6), pepper (5/12), and tomato (2/3)?
Thomas got 9 1/3 feet of wood to fix his fence. When he finished, he had 3 2/3 feet of wood left. How much wood did Thomas use to fix his fence?
What is 5 2/3 feet?
Ned's frog jumped 38/100 meter. Then, his frog jumped 4/10 meter. How far did Ned's frog jump in all?
What is 78/100 meter?
Jasmine ate 1/4 of a pie. Draw a model to represent the fraction of the pie she ate. Then, write at least two fractions equivalent to the amount of pie Jasmine ate. Explain how you determined your answer.
What is 2/8, 3/12, 4/16, 5/20,....
Three friends are taking turns filling a tank with water for their science teacher. Sam fills 3/12 of the tank and Myra fills 4/12 of it. Jeremy also takes his turn filling up the tank. After the three friends have taken their turns, the tank is 9/12 full of water. How much of the tank did Jeremy fill?
What is 2/12 of the tank?
Emily uses 2/3 cup of milk to make one batch of muffins. Emily wants to make 3 batches of muffins. Emily has misplaced her 2/3 cup measuring cup, but decides she can use her 1/3 cup measuring cup instead. How many times will Emily need to fill the 1/3 cup measuring cup to make all three batches of muffins?
What is 6 times?
Write the following values on your whiteboard:
1 ten =
1 hundredth =
1 hundred =
1 tenth =
1 ten = 10
1 hundredth = 0.01
1 hundred = 100
1 tenth = 0.1
Mrs. Robledo and Miss McCarthy bought a bag of flour to make bagels. If Mrs. Robledo used 3/10 of the flour and Miss McCarthy used 2/10 of the flour, how much flour is left in the bag?
What is 5/10