What is the Fraction of the Shaded Area??

How do you figure out what this fraction is? Step 1: Count how many boxes (whole parts) there are. (Answer is 4) Step 2: Count how many boxes are shaded in. (Answer is 1) Step 3. The total number of boxes becomes your denominator. Step 4: The total number of boxes shaded becomes your numerator. Step 5: The answer for this problem is

Lets try it again!

Step 1: How many total boxes are there? Step 2: How many boxes are shaded in? Step 3: Whats your denominator? Step 4: Whats your numerator? Step 5: What is your answer?

Answer Key Step 1: 6 Step 2: 2 Step 3: 6 Step 4: 2 Step 5: 2/6