Decomposing Fractions
1/5 + 1/5 + 1/5
3/5
What is 1/5 + 3/5
4/5
What is 5/6 - 4/6?
1/6
Mrs. Sharp is working on her garden. 2/5 of her garden is made up of roses. 1/5 of her garden is made up of daisies. How much of her garden does Mrs. Sharp have left to plant lilies?
2/5 of his garden
What is 1/2 + 2/4?
Decompose 2/8
1/8 + 1/8
What is 2/3 + 1/3?
3/3 or 1
What is 7/4 - 3/4?
4/4 or 1
Miss Glosson feeds her cats 1/4 of a cup of cat food 3 times a day. How many cups of cat food do they get each day?
3/4 of a cup of cat food
What is 1 - 1/3
2/3
1/6 + 1/6 + 1/6 + 1/6 + 1/6
What is 4/8 + 1/8 + 2/8?
7/8
What is 9/4 - 4/4 - 2/4?
3/4
Mr. Freund has some baseball cards. He gives 3/10 of his cards to Mr. Harrison and loses 1/10 of his cards. What fraction of his cards does he have left?
6/10 of his baseball cards
What is 2/3 + 1/6?
5/6
Decompose 7/8 using 3 fractions
3/8 + 3/8 +1/8
4/8 + 2/8 + 1/8
5/8 + 1/8 + 1/8
What is 2/6 + 1/6?
**Extra 100 points if you can simplify it!
3/6
**1/2
What is 10/12 - 4/12?
**Extra 100 points if you can simplify it.
8/12
**2/3
Miss Glosson is crocheting a blanket. 3/8 of the rows are blue and 2/8 of the rows are white. The remaining rows are grey. What fraction of the blanket will be grey?
3/8 of the blanket will be grey
Miss Glosson buys a pizza and cuts it into 10 pieces. 2/5 of the pieces are cheese and 3/5 of the pieces are pepperoni. How many pieces are pepperoni?
6 pieces are pepperoni
Show 3 different ways to decompose 9/10
Various answers
What is 3/9 + 2/9 + 1/9?
Extra 100 points if you can simplify it.
6/9
**2/3
What is 11/4 - 3/4?
**Extra 200 points if you can simplify it.
8/4
**2
Ms. Hopp has 6/8 of a bag of jolly ranchers left. She gives 1/8 of the bag to her class and 2/8 of the bag to her BOOST students. Then, Ms. Beck gives her 1/8 of her own bag. What fraction of her bag of jolly ranchers does Ms. Hopp have left?
4/8 of her bag
1/2 of her bag
What is 1/2 + 1/6 + 3/4?
17/12