Fairy Tale Fractions
Name _________________# ____
Date ______________________
Solve the fairy tale math problems below. Show your work.
(Hint: Draw pictures to help find correct answers.)
1. Little Red Riding Hood gave her grandmother a basketful of goodies. One third
was juicy apples, one third was blueberry muffins and one third was yummy
cookies. There were 9 goodies in all. How many of each treat were in the basket?
_______ apples
_______ muffins
_______ cookies
2. Cinderella swept the ashes from the fireplace twice a day. The day the prince
came, she only swept once. What fraction of her sweeping did she skip?
3. Goldilocks loved porridge. She ate Baby Bear’s entire cup of porridge, a quarter
of a cup of Mama Bear’s porridge and a quarter of a cup of Papa Bear’s porridge.
How many cups of porridge did Goldilocks eat in all?
4. Snow White lived with the Seven Dwarfs. Grumpy and Sleepy went to visit
friends. What fraction of the dwarfs stayed home?
5. Rapunzel poked her head out the tower window and let down her hair. It hung
three-fourths of the way down to the ground. What fraction of the way down to
the ground remained?
6. Jack’s beanstalk grew so tall that one-third of its height was 20 feet. How tall
was the beanstalk?
7. One of the Three Little Pigs used bricks to build his house. It took 25 bricks to
build one-fourth of it. How many bricks did he use in all?
8. Pinocchio’s nose grew one centimeter every time he told a lie. It grew threefourths of 20 centimeters longer. How many lies had he told?
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