Contributor: Delaine Thomas. Lesson ID: 12784
Can you eat an entire pizza yourself? You can't eat it or share it unless you cut it into slices. Dividing things into parts makes fractions, and you will need to know that for your own pizza parlor!
Put on your detective hat, follow the clues, and try to figure out what you will be learning today! Don't worry if you don't catch on to the video right away; it's a bit strange!
Attention Getter to Fractions - TEASe
That’s right — you are going to learn about fractions!
A fraction is a part of a whole. For example, if I had a chocolate pie and I cut it into 8 slices, and I ate 1 piece of the pie, I could say that I ate 1⁄8 of the chocolate pie.
Watch Introduction to Fraction for Kids, from Smart Learning for All, so you can learn more about the parts of a fraction:
Use what you learned from the video and take a few seconds to study the circle below:
That’s right! There are 3 equal parts in the circle.
Yes, it is the denominator, because the denominator tells us how many parts are in the whole thing. So we write it under the fraction bar:
If you said, "1," you are correct. There is only 1 red part. So 1 is the numerator because it tells us how many parts of the whole we are talking about.
Let’s try another one.
There are 6 parts in the circle.
The correct answer is 4.
The numerator tells us how many parts we are talking about, so those are the parts that are colored red. In this case, there are 4 parts out of the 6 that are red.
Our fraction looks like this:
Fractions are very useful in our everyday lives.
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