Fractions

What is a fraction?
A fraction is a way of showing how much of something you have

The red portion of both Part

of these shapes is;
Out of 2 total

Here we have And here we

3 out of 4 have 1 out of 8
so; so;
Types of Fractions
Sometimes, fractions are a mess of numbers and can come in 3 different forms;
Regular Irregular / Top heavy Mixed
Fractions Fractions Fractions

Both of these mean the same

thing, and we can use either.
Simplifying Fractions
Sometimes fractions will need to be simplified.
Simplifying a fraction does just that - make it easier to tell what it means, this usually
means using smaller or ‘nicer’ numbers,
Such as 1, 2, 5, 10 or 100!
You want to share a chocolate bar with a friend.
The bar has 16 blocks. You agree to have 8 each.

Both 8 and 16 are in the 8 times

tables, so we can!
We want this fraction to be as simple
as possible, so we can put a 1 on the
In total, you gave top, which means we divide by 8

your friend
But could we To keep it equal, whatever we do to the
simplify this? top, we HAVE to do to the bottom
What can we do with Fractions?
Let’s say we go to a pizza buffet!

I eat
and
of a pepperoni pizza of a meat feast of a bbq chicken

So how many slices of pizza did I eat?

More Pizza
My brother also came with me to the Pizza buffet.

He told me that he ate; and

Of a pepperoni pizza Of a bbq chicken Of a vegetarian

In order to figure out how much he ate - we need to change the

denominators (the bottom numbers) so that they’re all the same Now that all the
denominators are the
same, we can add the
numerators (the top numbers)
So much much did he eat?
More Pizza
I have another brother - who really likes pizza!

He told me that he ate; and

Of a pepperoni pizza Of a bbq chicken Of a vegetarian

What would all of these

fractions become if we
changed them all to a
common denominator?
Too Much Pizza….
Did you calculate that he ate;
This is a
top-heavy fraction.
Also known as an
Irregular Fraction
But we can see from the
diagram that this is the same as; 1 whole And 5 more
pizza slices

Which we could also

write as a
mixed number fraction
What about dice?
My brothers and I head home will bellies full of Pizza, and decide to play a game of monopoly.

To move your piece in Monopoly, you have to roll some dice.

Partway through the game, I need to roll a 12 in

order to land on the highest value tile in the game,
which would let me win.
What is the probability of me rolling 12 on 2 dice?

How could we find that out?

Dice!
The possible outcomes So the probability Result
on a single die are; 1, of getting each
2, 3, 4, 5, 6 result is Of
possible
To find the chance of rolling the same number twice in
a row - we have to multiply the fractions together

Multiplying fractions is as simple as top x top So what is the final

probability of me rolling
And bottom x bottom that 12 and winning?
Can’t forget the snacks!
After going through my cupboards, all I find is
half a bag of sweets, which my brother and I
decide to share equally.

How much of a bag of sweets do we both get?

So we have half a bag, shared between 2 people

We can write ANY whole

To do this - we number as a fraction, by
have to turn both dividing it by 1
numbers into
fractions
This looks even harder to solve.
Thats where
 Keep , Flip , Change!
When we have a dividing fractions question - We can use KFC to
change it into a times question in 3 easy steps
Keep Change Flip

1. We keep our first 3. And we change our 2. We flip our second So how much
fraction the same symbol fraction around of a bag of
sweets do we
both each eat?
Some questions to try
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3.
Bonus question
Are all your answers written in
4. their simplest form?

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6.
Some harder questions
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3.

When dividing
4. fractions
Don’t forget to KFC!

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