Vocabulary-Fraction Words

What is a fraction?

• Unequal pieces of a whole or a set

• Any part or piece of a whole object

• Sharing all of the pieces equally with others

Tags

CCSS.3.NF.A.1

CCSS.3.NF.A.2B

What is a unit fraction?

• MANY parts or pieces of a whole object

• TWO parts or pieces of an object (example: 2/8, 2/9)

• ONE part or piece of a whole object; always has a numerator of 1 (example: ¼, ½ or ⅛)

Tags

CCSS.3.NF.A.1

CCSS.3.NF.A.2A

What is the numerator in a fraction?

• The number above the line in a standard fraction

• The number below the line in a standard fraction

• The line in between the two numbers in a standard fraction

Tags

CCSS.3.NF.A.1

CCSS.3.NF.A.2B

What is the denominator?

• The dividing line between two numbers in a fraction

• The number above the line in a standard fraction

• The number below the line in a standard fraction

Tags

CCSS.3.NF.A.1

CCSS.3.NF.A.2B

What does it mean to be equivalent?

• to be very large

• To be the same or equal

• to be uneven shapes

• to be far away

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

What are equivalent fractions?

• two fractions that have different amounts

• Different fractions that equal the same amount

• One fraction is big and one fraction is small. They are unequal

Tags

CCSS.3.NF.A.3A

CCSS.3.NF.A.3B

CCSS.4.NF.A.1

What does represent mean?

• to resist

• to join

• to give away

• To show

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.RF.K.3C

What does it mean to combine?

• To cost a lot of money

• To unite, merge or come together

• To comb your hair

• To leave early

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

What does it mean to identify?

• To notice or recognize someone or something

• To squint your eyes in the bright sun

• To gather together

• To grow

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.RF.K.3C

Which of the following amounts are equivalent?

• 167 = 193

• 190 = 109

• 2+5 = 6+1

• 3+3=2+1

Tags

CCSS.1.OA.B.3