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Contents
Introduction
1 Circles
2 Triangles
3 Squares
4 Hexagons
5 Mixed Numbers
6 Rectangles
7 Smiley Faces
8 Shapes
10 Pictures
Introduction
This workbook provides practice determining fractions visually. For example, a
circle may be divided into red, yellow, and blue pie slices, and the exercise may
be to figure out what fraction of the slices are each color. Other shapes include
triangles, squares, and hexagons; some exercises also feature smiley faces,
letters, and numbers. The hope is that these exercises will help convey a sense of
what fractions mean in a way that’s easy to visualize.
Answers: The answer to each problem can be checked with the click of a
footnote. Note that the answers are all stated as reduced fractions.
Reduced fractions: Sometimes, a fraction may be written more than one way.
For example, three-fourths of each pie below is colored blue. This shows that
9/12 is equal to 3/4; the form 3/4 is called the reduced fraction, since it is
simpler. If you divide the slices of the left pie into groups of three, you will see
that three of the four groups are blue (and one group is yellow).
Chapter 1
Circles
Exercise 1.
Note regarding answers: Sometimes, there is more than one way to express the
fraction. In this case, we have given the reduced fraction. For example, if 6 out
of 9 circles are red, we could say that 6/9 are red. However, if 6 out of 9 are red,
we can divide the circles into groups of 3, and see that 2 out of 3 of the groups
are red, or that 2/3 of the circles are red. In this case, 2/3 is the reduced fraction;
2/3 is equal to 6/9. See the image at the end of the introduction for a visual
example of this.
Exercise 2.
Triangles
Exercise 17.
Squares
Exercise 23.
Hexagons
Exercise 29.
Mixed Numbers
Instructions: Write a mixed number for your answer to these questions. For
example, the mixed number 3-½ means three and one-half. (See how the number
3-½ appears in the figure below.)
Exercise 35.
Exercise 36.
How many blue circles are shown above?
Exercise 37.
Exercise 38.
Exercise 39.
How many red circles are shown above?
Exercise 40.
Exercise 41.
Exercise 42.
How many green circles are shown above?
Rectangles
Exercise 43.
Exercise 44.
Exercise 45.
Exercise 46.
Exercise 47.
Exercise 48.
Exercise 49.
Exercise 50.
Exercise 51.
Exercise 52.
Exercise 53.
Exercise 54.
Exercise 55.
Exercise 56.
Exercise 57.
Exercise 58.
Exercise 59.
Exercise 60.
Exercise 61.
Exercise 62.
Exercise 63.
Exercise 64.
Exercise 65.
Exercise 66.
Exercise 67.
Exercise 68.
Exercise 69.
Exercise 70.
Exercise 70.
Exercise 71.
Exercise 72.
Smiley Faces
Exercise 97.
Exercise 98.
Shapes
Exercise 102.
Pictures
Exercise 118.
What fraction of the arrows above are blue?
Exercise 1
1/3 1/2
Exercise 2
Exercise 2
2/5
Exercise 3
1/5
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
1/6
Exercise 7
1/3
Exercise 8
4/9 2/9
Exercise 9
3/10 3/10
Exercise 10
2/5 1/5
Exercise 11
Exercise 12
1/3
Exercise 13
1/3 1/4
Exercise 14
Exercise 15
Exercise 16
Exercise 17
1/4
Exercise 18
Exercise 19
1/9 7/16 1/4
1/4 1/4
Exercise 20
Exercise 21
1/3 1/4
Exercise 22
Exercise 23
1/4 1/3
Exercise 24
1/3 1/9
Exercise 25
Exercise 27
1/8 1/2
Exercise 28
Exercise 29
1/6 1/3
Exercise 30
7/24 1/2
Exercise 31
Exercise 32
Exercise 33
3/8
Exercise 34
1-1/2
2-1/2
3-1/4
2-1/3
1-2/3
2-3/4
3-1/4
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1/3 2/3
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3/4 1/4
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1/2 1/3 1/6
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4/7 3/7
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4/5 1/5
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2/3 1/3
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1/2 1/2
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1/2 1/2
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2/3 1/3
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blue: 1/4
yellow: 3/4
circles: 1/8
triangles: 1/2
hexagons: 1/8
hexagons: 1/8
squares: 1/4
yellow: 2/3
red: 1/3
up: 1/6
down: 1/3
right: 1/3
left: 1/6
blue: 1/3
yellow: 1/3
red: 1/3
circles: 1/2
triangles: 1/6
squares: 1/3
blue: 1/3
yellow: 1/2
red: 1/6
up: 1/2
down: 1/6
down: 1/6
right: 1/6
left: 1/6
blue: 1/3
green: 1/2
red: 1/6
consonants: 2/3
vowels: 1/3
blue: 1/3
green: 2/9
red: 4/9
consonants: 2/3
vowels: 1/3
blue: 1/5
green: 3/5
red: 1/5
consonants: 3/5
vowels: 2/5
[109] Answers to Exercise 109:
blue: 3/11
green: 4/11
red: 4/11
consonants: 7/11
vowels: 4/11
blue: 2/5
green: 1/5
red: 2/5
uppercase: 2/5
lowercase: 3/5
blue: 5/9
green: 2/9
red: 2/9
uppercase: 2/3
lowercase: 1/3
blue: 1/5
green: 1/5
red: 3/5
uppercase: 3/5
lowercase: 2/5
blue: 4/9
green: 2/9
red: 1/3
uppercase: 2/3
lowercase: 1/3
blue: 5/9
green: 2/9
red: 2/9
odd: 5/9
even: 4/9
blue: 1/8
green: 3/4
red: 1/8
single-digit: 1/2
double-digit: 1/2
[116] Answers to Exercise 116:
blue: 1/4
red: 3/4
divisible by 3: 5/8
divisible by 4: 1/2
divisible by 6: 1/4
blue: 1/4
green: 1/2
red: 1/4
odd: 3/4
even: 1/4
blue: 1/3
yellow: 1/9
red: 5/12
green: 1/18
purple: 1/12
up: 1/4
down: 1/2
right: 1/6
left: 1/12
blue: 1/8
yellow: 9/40
red: 1/5
green: 3/20
purple: 3/10
circles: 1/4
triangles: 2/5
squares: 1/5
pentagons: 1/20
hexagons: 1/10
blue: 2/5
yellow: 1/5
red: 1/5
green: 3/25
purple: 2/25
planets: 3/5
stars: 2/5
yellow: 1/8
red: 1/4
green: 1/8
purple: 1/6
happy: 2/3
sad: 1/3