Fractions are used to represent parts of a whole or set. The document explains that a fraction represents a small or tiny part of something. It provides examples using hexagons and rectangles divided into equal pieces to show that a fraction indicates the number of pieces out of the total number of pieces. For instance, 5/6 of a hexagon would be five pieces out of the total six pieces.

1. What are Fractions? Erica Steiner EDU 352 Profession Rollins February 15, 2012

3. Let’s start by doing some counting … How many hexagons are here? But what if there was only part of the hexagon? 1 2 3 5 4 How would we count it?

4. We’ll use FRACTIONS! If we break the hexagon in to 6 equal pieces and took out 1 piece, what would we have? We would have 1 piece out of 6 pieces. Here is how we right it… We read this as “one sixth”

5. How much of the hexagon is GREEN? 5 pieces out of 6 total pieces are GREEN… so 5 / 6 of the hexagon is GREEN

6. How much is PURPLE ? 1 piece out of 6 total pieces are PURPLE … so 1 / 6 of the hexagon is PURPLE