Fractions Concepts & Vocabulary
What is a fraction?
Answer
A number that shows part of a whole
Fractions Concepts & Vocabulary - Math
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What is a fraction?
Answer:
A number that shows part of a whole
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What is the numerator?
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The top number — how many parts you have
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What is the denominator?
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The bottom number — how many equal parts in all
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What is 1/2 called?
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One half
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What is 1/3 called?
Answer:
One third
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What is 1/4 called?
Answer:
One quarter (one fourth)
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Which is larger: 1/4 or 1/2?
Answer:
1/2 — fewer parts means bigger pieces
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Which is larger: 1/3 or 1/5?
Answer:
1/3
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What is a unit fraction?
Answer:
A fraction with 1 on top, like 1/6
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What are equivalent fractions?
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Different fractions with the same value, like 1/2 = 2/4
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Write 2/4 in simplest form
Answer:
1/2
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Write 3/6 in simplest form
Answer:
1/2
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What does 4/4 equal?
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1 whole
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What is a proper fraction?
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Top number smaller than the bottom, like 3/5
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What is an improper fraction?
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Top number equal to or bigger than the bottom, like 7/4
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What is a mixed number?
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A whole number and a fraction together, like 1 1/2
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Change 3/2 to a mixed number
Answer:
1 1/2
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How many halves make a whole?
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2
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How many quarters make a whole?
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4
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What does the fraction bar mean?
Answer:
Divide — 3/4 means 3 ÷ 4
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Are 1/2 of a small pizza and 1/2 of a big pizza the same amount?
Answer:
No — halves must come from the same whole to compare
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What is 1/2 of 10?
Answer:
5
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What is 1/4 of 12?
Answer:
3
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Where do fractions live on a number line?
Answer:
Between whole numbers, splitting each space into equal parts