Math Week 3

Week 3

Fractions are Parts

When cutting a pizza, you try to slice it into equal parts so everyone gets a fair share, right? Did you know that when you do this, you are creating fractions? A fraction is an equal part of a whole object or an equal part of a set of objects.

You can find fractions everywhere. For example, fractions are often created when dividing food into equal shares, like cutting slices of a birthday cake. Fractions can be created by dividing geometric shapes into equal parts as well – think of a window that is divided by panes.

You can also make fractions out of a whole set or group of objects. If you have ten pieces of candy and you eat four of those pieces, you’ve eaten a part or fraction of the whole set of objects. These types of fractions represent smaller amounts of the overall number of pieces in the whole set.