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7 Fractions

Warm Up

● Fraction is a part or a part of whole.
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● is read as 'one-half' or 'one by two'.
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● 4 is read as 'one-fourth' or 'one-quarter' or 'one by four.
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● When a fraction is formed, the whole is divided into equal size. For example, to take 1/4 of
a pizza it is divided into 4 equal parts.

Fraction

When we divide anything into equal parts, each part is called a fraction of the whole.
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When you divide a pizza into 6 parts, each part is , or if you divide an apple into two
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halves, each part is .
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Here, or represents a fraction (a part of whole).
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One-half

When an object is divided into two

equal parts, then each part is called
one-half of the whole.
In the fi gures above each shaded part is one-half and is read as ‘one by two’ or ‘one-half’

or ‘one out of two’. Even the unshaded part also represents 1 or one-half as both are
equal. 2

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 One-half or 1/2 means equal parts. The given circle is distributed
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into two parts but both parts are not equal. Hence, shaded and unshaded
part is not equal to one-half.
 Only equal parts make a fraction. A whole
object or shape should be divided into equal
parts to form fractions. The parts in the
following pictures do not make fractions.