NonUnit Fractions Unit Fractions A unit fraction is

Non-Unit Fractions

Unit Fractions A unit fraction is a fraction with a numerator of 1. 1 2 Numerator (how many) 1 3 1 100 1 25 1 50 1 7 Denominator (what kind) 1 1 1 4 1 20 1 8 1 10

Equal Sharing There are 30 sweets in a tube and 1/5 of the sweets are yellow. How many sweets are yellow? What kind of fraction is it? How many groups do we need to divide the sweets into? 1 of 30 = 6 5 Because 30 ÷ 5 = 6

Non-Unit Fractions A non-unit fraction is a fraction with a numerator of any number apart from 1. 2 4 Numerator (how many) 5 10 2 5 4 16 2 2 25 100 2 3 Denominator (what kind) 5 6 8 12 3 9 4 7 10 25

Non-Unit Fractions 2 of the sweets are green. 3 How many sweets are green? There are 24 sweets in a tube and How many parts are we looking What kind of fraction is this? at? How manydo groups do we need tothe count? How many groups we need to divide sweets into? 2 of 24 = 16 3

Non-Unit Fractions 2 of the sweets are green. 3 How many sweets are green? There are 24 sweets in a tube and Numerator (how many) The numerator tells us how many of those groups we need. For this fraction, we need to count the number of sweets in 2 of the groups. 2 3 Denominator (what kind) The denominator tells us what kind of fraction it is. This fraction is a third, so we need to divide into 3 equal groups.

Non-Unit Fractions 2 of the sweets are red. 6 How many sweets are red? There are 24 sweets in a tube and 2 of 24 = 8 6

Non-Unit Fractions 3 of the sweets are purple. 5 How many sweets are purple? There are 25 sweets in a tube and 3 of 25 = 15 5

Would You Rather…? Tube A has 30 sweets in it. 2 You can have of the tube. 6 Tube B has 25 sweets in it. 3 You can have of the tube. 5 Which would you rather have? Vote now! 2 of 30 6 3 of 25 5 = 10 sweets = 15 sweets

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