Vocabulary
Identifying Fractions
Fractions Greater Than 1
Comparing Fractions
Grab Bag
100
The values 3/8, 2/5, 1/2 and 1/4 are all examples of this math term.
What are fractions?
100
Kodi made brownies to share with his friends. He sliced the brownies into 10 equal parts. This unit fraction represents each of Kodi's brownies.
What is 1/10?
100
Andrich has two equal-sized rectangles. Each rectangle is partitioned into 3 equal copies. To make a fraction with a value greater than 1, Andrich must shade this many copies.
What is 4 copies?
100
The number 1/2 is less than __________.
What is 1 whole?
100
The number 1 whole --when written as a fraction-- with 4 equal copies per whole is written like this.
What is 4/4?
200
You must determine that this is equal before you can compare fractions.
What are the whole units?
200
Sky folded a fraction strip into 5 equal copies. He then shaded 3 copies. This fraction represents the shaded portion of Sky's fraction strip.
What is 3/5?
200
Noah cut two oranges each into 4 equal slices. He ate 5 of these orange slices. If one orange equals 1 whole, then this fraction represents the total number of slices Noah ate.
What is 5/4?
200
The number 1/10 is greater than ____________.
What is 1/11, 1/12, or 1/13 (answers may vary)?
200
When comparing fractions, the fraction with the largest denominator --bottom number-- will always be __________ in size.
What is smaller?
300
The terms 1 fourth, 1 third, 1 sixth, and 1 eighth are all examples of this.
What is a fractional unit?
300
Josiah made a pizza for dinner. He cut the pizza into 12 equal parts. After eating dinner with his family, 5 slices of pizza were left. This fraction represents the amount of pizza Josiah's family ate.
What is 7/12?
300
Caleb brought 2 whole pizza's to the party. Each pizza was cut into 10 equal parts. Caleb and his friends ate 14 pieces of pizza all together. If one pizza equals 1 whole, this fraction represents the total amount of pizza the friends ate.
What is 14/10?
300
The number 5 fifths is _________ the number 6 sixths.
What is equal to?
300
A fraction with a bigger number on top and a smaller number on bottom will always be more than this amount.
What is 1?
400
This term represents the total number of parts in one whole unit and is the bottom number in any fraction.
What is the denominator?
400
Abby brought two whole Kit Kat Bars to eat at lunch. Each whole Kit Kat Bar has four equal sized pieces. Abby ate 6 pieces of the Kit Kat Bars. The total amount of Kit Kat Bars Abby ate can be represented by these two different fractions.
What is 6/4 or 6/8?
400
Jaxson is building a lego house. Each whole lego house needs a total of 9 blocks. In order to build 1 whole lego house and have 4 blocks left over, Jaxson needs this fraction of blocks.
What is 13/9?
400
The number 1/4 is ___________ 1/8.
What is greater than?
400
Drew used 1/2 of a small banana to make a banana split. Gavin used 1/4 of a large banana to make a banana split. A true statement regarding who ate the most banana in their sundae would be this.
What is you cannot determine who ate more banana because the bananas are not equal in size so you cannot say which fraction was bigger.
500
This type of fraction always has the number 1 as the numerator and represents 1 copy of a whole unit.
What is the unit fraction?
500
Kylee draws a number bond with 6 branches and the unit fraction of 1/6 written in each branch. This fraction represents the number in the circle at the top of Kylee's number bond.
What is 6/6?
500
Shadow brought 3 red socks and 1 blue sock to school for crazy sock day. Bella says 3/4 of the the socks are red. Shadow thinks 3/2 of the socks are red. This is the correct response.
What is both girls could be correct depending on how you define 1 whole unit?
500
As the number of copies within a whole unit increase, each copy gets _____________.
What is smaller?
500
In a number bond of the fraction 6/5, that has been decomposed into unit fractions, the number bond will have this many branches.
What is 6?