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 not equal parts equal parts To have a fraction, you must have equal parts not equal parts equal parts

What does a fraction look like? 1 4 numerator denominator

How Do We Read Fractions? 2 1 6 1 one half one sixth 3 1 8 1 one third one eighth 4 1 10 1 one fourth one tenth

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. 1 the number of peanut butter cookies 6 the total number of cookies

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

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

4 10 Parts of a Set What fraction of the stars are yellow? yellow stars 10 total number stars

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? 2 the number of slices I ate 8 the total number of pizza slices

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

Parts of a Whole What is the fraction of the blue part of the picture below? 4 = 1 whole 4

Parts of a Whole What is the fraction of the colored part of each picture below? 6 4 2 3 2 8 7 4 3