Key learning points

1. The whole has been divided into __ equal parts.
2. Each equal part is one-__ of the whole.
3. You can represent fractions with an image, symbol and name.

Keywords

• Whole - The whole is all the parts or everything, the total amount.

• Part - A part is some of the whole.

• Equal/unequal - We say that two or more things are equal if they have the same quantity or value. We say that two or more things are unequal if they do not have the same quantity or value.

• Fraction - A fraction describes the relationship between a part and a whole.

Common misconception