World 1 · Counting & Fractions · 7 minFractions are fair shares
Equal parts of a whole
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A fraction tells you how much of a whole you have. The bottom number says how many equal parts the whole is cut into. The top number says how many of those parts you take.
3/4 means: cut the whole into 4 equal parts and take 3 of them.
A cube can be cut fairly too: into 2 halves, 4 quarters or 8 eighths. Each eighth is a small cube: half as long, half as wide and half as tall as the big one.
Check yourself
A cake is cut into 3 pieces: one big piece and two small ones. Is each piece one third (1/3) of the cake?
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