What Is A Fraction? Discussion Questions
Answer the following questions based on what you already know about fractions.
1. What is a fraction?
2. How would you write one-half as a fraction?
3. Draw a picture of
4. Draw a picture of
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5. What fraction of the whole circle below is the shaded part? Explain how you
figured out your answer.
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What Is A Fraction? Discussion Questions (continued)
Answer the following questions based on what you already know about fractions.
1. Show me
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of this rectangle.
2. In the picture above, what does the “3” mean?
3. In the picture above, what does the “4” mean?
4. In question #1, the “3” is called the numerator. Explain what a numerator is
and what it tells us.
5. In question #1, the “4” is called the denominator. Explain what a
denominator is and what it tells us.
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What Is A Fraction? (continued)
Use your understanding of fractions to draw the fractions below.
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2.
3.
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4.
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%
5.
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6.
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Use your understanding of fractions to write the fractions shown below.
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3.
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