Unit 4 - partition and area

Chris bought himself a candy bar. If he splits it to share with himself and 3 friends, which shows how Chris should cut his chocolate bar?

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Mr. Atkins gave his class a rectangular sheet of paper and asked them to fold it into fourths.

Which steps could the students take to divide the paper into fourths?

• Fold the paper in half four times to unfold to reveal equally sized parts.

• Fold the left and right sides of the paper to meet in the middle and then unfold to reveal 4 rectangular parts

• Draw a line from the top and bottom of the paper that is equally spaced from the left and right. Then draw a line left and right sheet of the paper equally spaced from the top and bottom

Dr. Francis is tiling her bathroom with tiles that are 1 square foot each. Her bathroom is 6 feet long and 4 feet wide.

What is the total area of Dr. Francis' bathroom?

Which figure is partitioned into fourths by using 2 lines?

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When the fraction is 1/3 is used to describe part of a shape, what does the 3 represent?

• the total number of wholes

• the number of equal parts that are missing

• the number of lines used to partition the shape

• the number of equal parts that make one whole

Which figure below is not the correct way to partition a shape into sixths?

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Looking at the chalkboard, how many ways could you partition this board into fourths?

• In the middle, Draw 1 line from top to bottom and In the middle, 1 line left to right

• Draw 3 lines equal distance apart from top to bottom

• drawing four lines from top to bottom ( equal distance apart)

• draw a circle inside and draw 2 lines

This figure is partitioned into equal parts. If there are 3 equal parts, which label correctly identifies what the 3 parts are called.

• half

• thirds

• fourths

• fifths

There are 8 people eating a pizza and each person gets one piece. What should the pizza be partitioned into?

• fourths

• sixths

• eighths

• tenths

What is the area of this rectangle?

• 11 inches

• 11 inches squared

• 28 inches

• 28inches squared