What Are Fractions?

What is a Fraction?
• A fraction is a part of a whole
– like a piece of a whole pizza or a whole pie

• A fraction is also a part of a set

– like in a dozen cupcakes
 Equal Parts
• To have a fraction, you must have equal parts

not equal parts

equal parts
What does a fraction look like?

1 numerator

4 denominator
 How Do We Read Fractions?

• one half 1 • one sixth

1
2 6

• one third 1 • one eighth

1
3 8

• one fourth 1 • one tenth

1
4 10
 Parts of a Set
• Example - We made 6 cookies. 1 is peanut
butter and 5 are chocolate chip. How would
you write the number of peanut butter cookies
as a fraction.

the number of peanut butter cookies 1

the total number of cookies
6
 Parts of a Set
• What fraction of the triangles are red?

red triangles 1
total number triangles
2
 Parts of a Set
• What fraction of the boxes are orange?

orange boxes 1
total number boxes
4
 Parts of a Set
• What fraction of the stars are yellow?

yellow stars 4
total number stars
10
 Parts of a Whole
• Example – I ordered one whole pizza. It was
cut into 8 slices. I ate 2 slices. What fraction
of the whole pizza did I eat?

the number of slices I ate 2

the total number of pizza slices
8
 Parts of a Whole
• What is the fraction of the colored part of each
picture below?

1 1 1 1 1
3 8 2 6 4
 Parts of a Whole
• What is the fraction of the colored part of each
picture below?

4 2 2 7 3
6 2 3 8 4
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