1. What Are Fractions?

2. 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

3. Equal Parts not equal parts equal parts
To have a fraction, you must have equal parts
not equal parts
equal parts

4. What does a fraction look like?1 4
numerator
denominator

5. 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

6. 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

7. 1 2 Parts of a Set What fraction of the triangles are red?
red triangles 2
total number triangles

8. 1 4 Parts of a Set What fraction of the boxes are orange? orange boxes
total number boxes

9. 4 10 Parts of a Set What fraction of the stars are yellow?
yellow stars 10
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? 2
the number of slices I ate 8
the total number of pizza slices

11. 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

12. Parts of a Whole
What is the fraction of the blue part of the picture below? 1 3 2 4 4

13. 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