The number on the bottom of the fraction
What is the denominator?
There are 32 students in Lin’s fifth grade class. 1/4 of the class wears glasses. How many students year glasses?
8 students
Divide the fractions. 1/3 ÷ 2/5
What is 5/6
Multiply the fractions. 1/4 x 5/6
What is 5/24
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?
Each person will get 1/8 of the bag.
Divide the fractions. 4/5 ÷ 2
What is 2/5 or 4/10?
Divisor
What is the number of groups?
Tom spent 1/6 of the day working in the flower bed. Tom spent 2/3 of that time adding mulch. What fraction of the day did Tom spend adding mulch?
1/9 of his day.
Divide 6 ÷ 1/4
What is 24?
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 2/3 pounds. How many pounds of pineapple did she buy?
He bought 2 pounds of pineapple.
Divide 1/2 ÷ 8
What is 1/16
Multiply the fractions. 2/3 x 3 2/3
2 4/9
The amount being split up
What is dividend?
DAILY DOUBLE! Anita grew a garden with 3/4 of the area for vegetables. In the vegetable section, 1/6 of the area is carrots. What fraction of the total garden is carrots?
1/8 of the garden
Divide 2 ÷ 1/5
What is 10?
Multiply the fractions. 5 3/4 x 2/4
What is 2 7/8