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Ratios and Fractions Exploration

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Ratios and Fractions Exploration

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Ratios

1.A fruit bowl has 5 green apples and 5 red apples. What is the ratio of green apples to red apples?
  • 5:5
  • 1:2
  • 2:1
  • 10:5
2.There are 9 blue beads and 3 white beads. Which ratio shows blue beads to white beads in simplest form?
  • 3:9
  • 9:3
  • 1:3
  • 3:1
3.Which groups have the same number of each item? Select all that apply.
  • 4 green pens and 4 purple pens
  • 6 pears and 2 peaches
  • 3 rabbits and 3 guinea pigs
  • 8 cups and 5 plates
4.A pattern has a ratio of 1 yellow tile to 4 green tiles. For every 1 yellow tile, how many green tiles are there?

Fractions and equal parts

5.A box contains 10 biscuits. Four are oat biscuits. What fraction of the biscuits are oat biscuits?
  • 4/10
  • 10/4
  • 1/4
  • 4/6
6.Mere has 12 badges. One quarter of them are shaped like stars. How many star badges does she have?
7.Match each fraction word to its meaning.
  • Numerator
  • Denominator
  • Equal parts
  • The bottom number in a fraction
  • Parts that are the same size
  • The top number in a fraction
8.A quarter of a cake is cut into 2 equal pieces. How many equal pieces would make the whole cake?

Show what you know

9.Draw 12 circles. Colour one third red and the rest blue. Then write the ratio of red circles to blue circles.
10.Explain what equal sharing means. Include a simple example in your answer.
11.A toy box has 6 toy cars and 2 toy trains. What is the ratio of cars to trains?

3 printable pages

  • Year 3 ratio questions about matching quantities, with a fraction bar illustration.

    Page 1

  • Year 3 fraction questions about quarters and equal sharing, with a pie diagram.

    Page 2

  • A drawing activity to show one third of 12 circles and practise ratios.

    Page 3

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