What are fractions?

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Intros
Lessons
  1. What are fractions?
  2. How to write fractions using numbers and shapes
  3. How to write fractions to represent groups of objects
  4. How to show fractions on number lines
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Examples
Lessons
  1. Equal Parts of a Whole
    How many equal parts are there? Each part is how much of a whole?
    1. Representing Numbers: Tally Marks
    2. Representing Numbers: Tally Marks
    3. Representing Numbers: Tally Marks
  2. Counting Shaded Parts of a Whole
    What fraction is shown by the shaded part(s)?
    1. Representing Numbers: Tally Marks
    2. Representing Numbers: Tally Marks
    3. Representing Numbers: Tally Marks
  3. Shading in Parts of a Whole
    Represent the fraction by shading in parts of the shape
    1. 56 \frac{5}{6} of this hexagon: Representing Numbers: Tally Marks
    2. 47 \frac{4}{7} of this hexptagon: Representing Numbers: Tally Marks
    3. 13 \frac{1}{3} of this triangle: Representing Numbers: Tally Marks
  4. Fractions - Word Problem 1
    There were 10 kittens at the pet store. By the end of the day, 3 of them had been adopted.
    1. What fraction of kittens were adopted?
    2. What fraction of kittens were NOT adopted?
  5. Fractions - Word Problem 2
    Stella has a butterfly collection at home. She has 5 monarch butterflies, 2 swallowtail butterflies, 8 white cabbage butterflies, and 1 zebra butterfly.
    1. What fraction of her collection is swallowtail butterflies?
    2. What fraction of her collection is NOT zebra butterflies?
    3. What fraction of her collection does the monarch and white cabbage butterflies make up together?
  6. Guessing the fraction by creating equal parts
    What fraction of the picture is shown by the shaded area? Try to split each into equal parts first.
    1. Representing Numbers: Tally Marks
    2. Representing Numbers: Tally Marks
    3. Representing Numbers: Tally Marks
    4. Representing Numbers: Tally Marks
  7. Writing the fraction represented by the number line
    Write the fraction shown by the dot on the number line.
    1. What are fractions?
    2. What are fractions?
    3. What are fractions?
  8. Fractions for sets of objects
    Describe the sets of objects with fractions by filling in the blanks.
    1. There are ___ balls in total
      ___ are yellow out of ___ balls
      What fraction of the balls are yellow? ___

      What are fractions?
    2. There are ___ cubes
      ___ are green out of a total of ___ cubes
      What fraction of the cubes are green? ___

      What are fractions?
    3. If one-fourth of the light bulbs are broken:

      There are ___ light bulbs in total
      ___ lightbulb(s) work and ___ lightbulb(s) do not work
      What fraction of lightbulbs are not broken? ___

      What are fractions?
    4. Three slices of pizza have been eaten but five slices of pizza are left over:

      There were ___ slices of pizza in total
      ___ slices have been eaten and ___ slices have not been eaten yet
      What fraction of pizza slices have been eaten? ___

      What are fractions?