🦋 Part 1: Understanding Fractions

1. A butterfly has 4 wing sections. If 2 sections are coloured blue, what fraction is blue?

1/2

2/4

Both answers are correct

2. Look at this butterfly garden. There are 8 butterflies total. If 3 are yellow, what fraction are yellow?

3/8

8/3

3/5

3. A butterfly's wing is divided into 6 equal parts. If 1 part is red, what fraction is red?

Answer: _____

4. Circle the fractions that mean "half":

1/2

2/4

3/6

1/4

🌸 Part 2: Butterfly Fraction Problems

5. In a butterfly collection, there are 10 butterflies. If 4 are orange and 3 are purple, what fraction are NOT orange or purple?

6. A caterpillar ate 1/4 of a leaf. Draw and colour what the leaf might look like:

7. Complete the pattern:

1/3, 2/3, _____, 4/3

8. Write a fraction story about butterflies using the fraction 2/5:

9. A monarch butterfly has wings with equal sections. If 3 out of 8 sections have black spots, what fraction has black spots?

Fraction with spots: _____

Fraction without spots: _____

10. Design your own butterfly! Draw a butterfly and colour exactly 1/2 of its wings. Explain how you know it's 1/2: