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Fun with Fractions

Help plan a picnic by reading fraction models, sharing food fairly and solving fraction clues. Show your working where it helps.

Read the fraction models

Each model shows one whole cut into equal parts.

1.A picnic wrap is cut into 4 equal pieces. What fraction is one piece?

2.A fruit tart is divided into 8 equal slices. Five slices are eaten. What fraction of the tart is eaten?

3.Which fraction is larger: 1/2 or 1/4? Use the number line to help explain.

Share the picnic food

Use equal groups to find fractions of amounts.

4.There are 12 mandarins in the picnic basket. What is 1/3 of 12 mandarins?

5.A tray has 16 cheese cubes. One quarter are placed on a plate. How many cheese cubes are on the plate? Show how you worked it out.

6.Four friends share 20 crackers equally. What fraction of the crackers does each friend get, and how many crackers is that?

7.True or false? If a sandwich is cut into 6 equal pieces, 2 pieces make 2/6 of the sandwich.

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Fraction clues

Look for what the numerator and denominator tell you.

8.Complete the sentence: In the fraction 3/5, the denominator 5 tells us the whole is divided into equal parts.

9.A picnic blanket has 4 equal sections. Two sections are covered with plates. Write the fraction covered, then name an equivalent fraction with denominator 2.

10.A bottle is full. Anahera drinks 3/8 of it. What fraction is left?

11.Draw a rectangle divided into 3 equal parts. Shade 2/3, then write how many parts are shaded and how many equal parts make the whole.