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ACTIVITY

What's the Fraction?

  • 1 Here are pictures of some Fraction Cards. On each one, write the name of the shaded fraction that is shown.

    A Fraction Card with two rectangles. The first rectangle is shaded. The second rectangle is divided into two equal sections with one section shaded.

    Fraction:

    A Fraction Card with a rectangle divided into six equal sections with five sections shaded.

    Fraction:

    A Fraction Card with a rectangle divided into eight equal sections with six sections shaded.

    Fraction:

    A fraction card with two rectangles. Each rectangle is divided into five equal sections. All five sections on each rectangle are shaded.

    Fraction:

  • 2 Choose one of the fractions above and draw a picture of an equivalent fraction.

  • 3 How do you know these two fractions are equivalent? Write in the space below or on another sheet of paper.


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Table of Contents

Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Arrays, Factors, and Multiplicative Comparison Unit 2 Generating and Representing Measurement Data Unit 3 Multiple Towers and Cluster Problems Unit 4 Measuring and Classifying Shapes Unit 5 Large Numbers and Landmarks Unit 6 Fraction Cards and Decimal Grids Unit 7 How Many Packages and Groups? Unit 8 Penny Jars and Towers