Getting A“Taste”

For Fractions!

I have a pepperoni pizza. Yum! Doesn't it look tasty? I want to find out what fraction, or part, of the pizza I eat when I take a slice.

First I count how many slices we cut our pizza into. Count along with me!

1 2

345

6

There are 6 slices of pizza.When we write a fraction, we write the total number of parts on the bottom. This is called the denominator.

6This is the denominator. It tells us how many total parts we have. We have 6 slices of pizza, so we write 6 on the bottom of our fraction.

Hmm...I wonder what goes here...

Now I ate a slice of the pizza.Mmm...delicious!What part, or fraction, of thepizza did I eat?

The top of the fraction, the numerator, tells us how many parts of the whole we are looking at. I ate 1 slice of pizza, so my numerator is 1.

6Remember, our denominator tells us how many total parts we have. The pizza was cut into 6 slices.

This is the numerator. It shows how many partswe are looking at, or that answer our question. How much pizza did I eat? 1 slice.

1

1 2

345

6

16

- what does that mean? Let's take a closer look at our fraction:

16

I ate 1 slice of the pizza.

My pizza was cut into 6 slices.