🍕 Part 1: Cooking with Fractions

1. A recipe calls for 2/3 cup of flour to make 6 muffins. How much flour do you need to make 12 muffins?

2. You have 24 chocolate chips and want to use 3/4 of them in your biscuits. How many chocolate chips will you use?

3. A cake recipe serves 8 people and needs 1/2 cup of sugar. If you want to make it for 4 people, how much sugar do you need?

1/4 cup

1/3 cup

1/2 cup

3/4 cup

🎂 Part 2: Sharing and Dividing

4. You have 18 lollies to share equally among 6 friends. What fraction of the total lollies will each friend get?

5. Draw a bar model to show how you would divide 20 apples into 4 equal groups:

6. If 1/5 of a class is 6 students, how many students are in the whole class?

🛒 Part 3: Shopping and Money

7. A packet of biscuits costs $4.00. If you only eat 3/8 of the packet, how much money's worth of biscuits did you eat?

8. Which of these fractions represent more than half? (Check all that apply)

3/5

2/5

4/7

3/8

5/9

9. You spend 2/3 of your $15.00 pocket money on a toy. How much money do you have left?

📏 Part 4: Real-World Applications

10. Match each real-life situation with the correct fraction calculation:

1. Finding 1/4 of 20 metres of rope

2. Sharing 12 pizzas among 3 classes

3. Using 2/5 of 30 grams of butter

A. 12 grams

B. 5 metres

C. 4 pizzas each

11. Complete these fraction word problems:

If 3/4 of the 28 students in our class like chocolate ice cream, then _______ students like chocolate ice cream.

When I run 2/3 of a 6-kilometre track, I have run _______ kilometres.

If 1/6 of my collection is 8 stickers, then my whole collection has _______ stickers.

12. Explain in your own words how you would find 3/5 of 25 lollies. Use mathematical vocabulary like numerator, denominator, and equal parts:

Fractions in Real Life

Fractions in Real Life

🍕 Part 1: Cooking with Fractions

🎂 Part 2: Sharing and Dividing

🛒 Part 3: Shopping and Money

📏 Part 4: Real-World Applications

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