5th Grade Math Unit Test

What is a fraction?

• A part of a whole with a numerator and a denominator

• The numbers to be multiplied

• The lowest term

• The simplest form of a number

• equivalent fractions

• similar fractions

• proper fraction

• improper fraction

Answer explanation

Fraction is from Old French from Ecclesiastical Latin fractio(n-) which means ‘breaking (bread)’, from Latin frangere ‘to break’.

A whole number and a proper fraction together.

• proper fraction

• improper fraction

• similar/like fractions

• mixed number

Fractions with the same denominators.

• improper fractions

• proper fractions

• dissimilar/unlike fractions

• similar fractions

• proper fraction

• mixed number

• improper fraction

• similar/like fractions

Fractions that have the same value, but with different numerators and denominators.

• similar/like fractions

• dissimilar/unlike fractions

• equivalent fractions

• proper fractions

Dissimilar/Unlike fractions are __________

• fractions that are the same.

• fractions that have different denominators.

• fractions that have the same value.

• fractions that are exactly the same.

A fraction is in simplest form if __________

• the numerator is an odd number.

• the denominator is a prime number.

• the denominator is an even number.

• the numerator and denominator have no common factors other than 1.