Vocabulary
The number on the bottom of the fraction
What is the denominator?
2/3 of the students in Lin’s fifth grade class have short hair. 1/2 of the girls wear glasses. What fraction of Lin’s class are people with short hair who wear glasses?
What is 2/12 or 1/6?
James will draw a rectangle with a length of 12 1/2 inches and a width of 2 inches. What is the area of his rectangle.
25 inches squared
3 gardeners share 8 bags of mulch equally. How much mulch will each gardener get?
What is 2 2/3 bags of mulch.
John runs 2/7 of a mile. Mary runs 1/3 of the distance John did. How far did Mary run?
What is 2/21 of a mile.
The number on the top of the fraction
What is the numerator?
You have 1/2 of a bag of pretzels and you want to share them equally among 4 people. How much of the bag does each person get?
What is 1/8 of a bag?
How much milk will each child get if 8 children share 1/2 a gallon equally?
What is 1/16
7 friends are sharing 15 cookies equally. How many cookies will each friend get?
What is 2 1/7 cookies.
Dianne at 1/3 of a bowl of soup. Cameron at 1/2 as much as Dianne. How much soup did Cameron eat?
What is 1/6 bowls of soup.
The numerator is larger than the denominator.
What is an improper fraction?
A garden is in the shape of a rectangle 1 4/5 feet long and 2 4/6 feet wide. What is the area of the garden?
What is 4 4/5 ft squared?
Jim has 1/2 a pound of raisins. He puts the raisins into 4 bags. He put the same amount into each bag. What amount of raisins did Jim put into each bag?
1/8
There are 6 people in a study group. The group needs to answer 38 review questions. If each group member answers the same amount of questions, how many questions does one person answer?
What is 6 1/3 questions.
At the zoo 5/6 of the animals have fur. Of the furry animals 1/3 are lions. What fraction of all the creatures are lions?
What is 5/18 are lions.
DAILY DOUBLE! The answer to a multiplication problem and the answer to a division problem
What are the product and the quotient?
Elena bought 3 pineapples that each weighed about 1 2/3 pounds. How many pounds of pineapple did she buy?
What is 5 pounds?
At a picnic 12 people share 4 sandwiches equally. How much of a sandwich did each person get?
What is 1/3 of a sandwich.
Mrs. Jones has half of a pie leftover. Today her 4 children will share the leftover pie equally. What fraction of a whole pie will each child get?
What is 1/6 of a pie.
Amy grows vegetables in a garden. 3/5 of these grow underground. Of the underground vegetables 2/6 are potatoes. What fraction of all vegetables are potatoes?
1/5 are potatoes.
A whole number and a fraction.
What is a mixed number?
DAILY DOUBLE! Clare plays her favorite song 6 times on repeat while she gets ready for school in the morning. If the song is 3 9/10 minutes long, how long does it usually take Clare to get ready in the morning?
What is 23 4/10 or 23 2/5?
Each of 5 boys ate 2/3 of a pizza. What is the total amount of pizza the boys ate?
What is 3 1/3
There is 1/5 of a gallon of ice cream in the freezer. 2 sisters share the ice cream equally. What fraction of the gallon of ice cream does each sister eat?
What is 1/10 of a gallon of ice cream.
Sandra picked 7/10 of a plants strawberries. She used 2/5 of those strawberries to make a pot of jam. What fraction of the picked strawberries went into the jam?
What is 7/25.