Anyone in the mood for bowling? Math practice was never so much fun! With this fraction sheet, your child will color fractions of pins that are knocked down.
The mailman needs help sorting his mail in fractions! Can your child help? She'll color in fractions of the group of envelopes to be sent to the families.
If your child is excelling in math, give her an introduction to fractions! This fraction sheet will help her visualize fractions with counting and coloring.
If your child is in a fraction funk, give her a boost with a fun bowling for fractions page! She'll get to color in different fractions of bowling pins.
Is your child frowning over fractions? Give her a helpful visual aide, with some coloring to go along with it! She'll color fractions of envelopes to deliver.
It's mail time! Give your child a fun way to learn fractions with a coloring and counting sheet. She'll color the different fractions of envelopes to send.
If your child is struggling with fractions, try a visual worksheet. This mail call activity will help her visualize fractions by counting and coloring.
Introduce your students to fractions with these resources that give colorful examples and written descriptions. By teaching fractions as being part of a set, students are more able to make real-life connections and absorb what they are learning. By giving both visual graphics and the number equivalent, these worksheets make it easy for students to get the most from their education. Get more practice with our fractions and parts of a whole resources. Find teaching strategies and guided practice for your child with our Fractions and Parts of a Set Skills Guide.
After mastering basic mathematical concepts with whole numbers, your students may be intimidated when being introduced to fractions. When you have a set of objects, you use a fraction to represent a portion of that set mathematically.
When first exposing your students to fractions, you can use actual objects. Start with a set or group of blocks of multiple colors. Have student separate out blocks of a single color. Explain to your students that, while the separated blocks represent a subset of the original group, they still belong to the original set or superset.
Once they understand this aspect, you can teach them to write this as a fraction. Fractions have two parts; the numerator and the denominator. When dealing with fractions as part of a set, the numerator represents the subset of items. The denominator represents the superset from which the subset was taken. They are written with the numerator over the denominator, separated by a line, called the Vinculum:
Numerator
Denominator
They can also be separated by a slash:
Numerator/Denominator
There are also specific ways to read a fraction. Because the numerator represents the subset, it’s read as a number. It is a quantity of pieces. The denominator refers to the name of the pieces, based on the total. For example:
One of two pieces is called a half
One of three or more pieces is named by applying the same rule as you would when using a sequence:
One of three pieces is a third
One of four pieces is a fourth, and so on
Practicing identifying fractions with the resources provided by Education.com above may help your students get comfortable with the concept of fractions as a part of a set.
