Vocabulary
What is the bottom number in a fraction?
Denominator
What is the top number in a fraction?
Numerator
2/3 1/3
2/3
4/6 4/5
4/5
How can you tell a fraction is equivalent to 1?
The numerator and denominator are the same
To make a fraction, how does the unit have to be divided?
Into equal parts
What does it mean to have equal parts?
The parts are the same size
3/5 4/5
4/5
1/3 1/2
1/2
How are you tell a fraction is equivalent to 1/2?
The denominator is double the numerator
What does the denominator tell us?
How many equal parts the unit is divided into
What does the numerator tell us?
How many equal parts are in the fraction
3/8 6/8
6/8
2/3 2/8
2/3
Bigger numerator, bigger fraction
What do we call the whole?
Unit
What do you use to count whole things?
Whole number
3/7 1/7
3/7
5/6 5/9
5/6
How do you compare fractions with the same numerator?
Fewer parts (denominator), bigger fraction
Fractions less than 1
Proper Fraction
Fractions equal to or greater than 1
Improper Fraction
3/4 7/4
7/4
4/7 4/3
4/3
Use multiplication to create a fraction equivalent to 1/2
2/4, 3/6, 4/8, 5/10.....