1. What’s the Fraction?
An Interactive PowerPoint

2. Halves We can share things equally into two halves.
The green shaded area is one half.
We write it as ½ because we have one part shaded and two parts altogether.
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3. Quarters We can share things equally into four quarters.
The blue shaded area is one quarter.
We write it as ¼ because we have one part shaded and four parts altogether.
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4. How Many Quarters?
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5. Thirds, Fifths, Sixths, Eighths
We can also share things equally into:
three parts (thirds)
five parts (fifths)
six parts (sixths)
eight parts (eighths)
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6. How Many Thirds?
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7. How Many Fifths?
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8. How Many Sixths?
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9. How Many Eighths?
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10. Sometimes fractions look the same, but we can write them differently.
EQUIVALENT FRACTIONS
Sometimes fractions look the same, but we can write them differently.
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