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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Practice 1: Understanding the Idea of a Fraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Practice 2: Understanding Fractions — Parts of a Whole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Practice 3: Visualizing Equivalent Fractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Practice 4: Equivalent Fractions Using Number Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Practice 5: Equivalent Fractions Less Than, Greater Than, and Equal to One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Practice 6: Comparing and Ordering Fractions Less Than One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Practice 7: Reducing Fractions to Lowest Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Practice 8: Adding Fractions with Common Denominators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Practice 9: Subtracting Fractions with Common Denominators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Practice 10: Proper Fractions, Improper Fractions, and Mixed Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Practice 11: Converting Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Practice 12: Converting Mixed Numbers to Improper Fractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Practice 13: Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers with Common Denominators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Practice 14: Computing Common Denominators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Practice 15: Comparing Fractions by Computing Common Denominators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Practice 16: Ordering Proper Fractions with Uncommon Denominators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Practice 17: Determining the Lowest Common Denominator/Least Common Multiple . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Practice 18: Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Practice 19: Visualizing Decimals Less Than One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Practice 20: Writing Decimals Less Than One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Practice 21: Comparing Fractions and Decimals on a Number Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Practice 22: Working With Decimals Greater Than One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Practice 23: Comparing Decimals on a Number Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Practice 24: Ordering Decimals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Practice 25: Rounding Decimals to Whole Numbers and Tenths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Practice 26: Adding Decimals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Practice 27: Subtracting Decimals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Practice 28: Estimating Sums and Differences with Decimals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Practice 29: Adding and Subtracting Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Practice 30: Understanding Percents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Practice 31: Understanding Percents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Practice 32: Converting Decimals to Percents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Practice 33: Converting Percents to Decimals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Practice 34: Converting Fractions and Percents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Practice 35: Percents over 100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Practice 36: Computing Percents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Test Practice 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Test Practice 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Test Practice 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Test Practice 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Test Practice 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Test Practice 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Answer Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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Table of Contents

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ReminderThe numerator is the top number in a fraction. It tells the number of parts or sections you are considering.The denominator is the bottom number. It tells the number of parts in the whole set. Numerator 2 (There are 2 parts you are considering.) Denominator 3 (There are 3 parts in the whole set.)

Directions: Circle the numerator in each fraction.

1. 12 2. 3

4 3. 57 4. 8

12

5. 611 6. 7

23 7. 910 8. 7

13

Directions: Draw a box around the denominator in each fraction.

9. 812 10. 4

5 11. 716 12. 4

8

13. 57 14. 12

13 15. 713 16. 1

10

Directions: Shade in the number of parts represented by the numerator in each fraction.

17. 23 18. 4

5 19. 78 20. 1

8

21. 13 22. 3

4 23. 57 24. 8

12

25. 19 26. 4

4 27. 55 28. 3

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Understanding the Idea of a Fraction

Practice 1

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Directions: Tell how many parts each figure is divided into. Write your answer next to each shape.

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

Directions: Write a fraction for the shaded part of each figure below. Write your answer next to each shape.

7. 8. 9.

10. 11. 12.

Directions: Name the fraction that tells how much of each figure is not shaded. Write your answer next to each shape.

13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18.

Directions: On the figures below, shade in the amount named by each fraction.

19. 13 20.

45 21.

49

22. 46 23.

710 24.

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Understanding Fractions — Parts of a Whole

Practice 2

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ReminderEquivalent fractions represent equal amounts divided into a different number of pieces. Equivalent fractions are equal to each other.

The illustration shows that 22 is equal to 4

4 and that both are equal to 1. =

Directions: Name the equivalent fractions represented in the illustrations below. Note that all these equivalent fractions are less than 1. Write the missing numerators and shade in the fraction bars to match. The first two are done for you.

1. 12 = 2

4 2. 13 = 2

6 3. 14 = 8

4. 13 = 9 5. 1

2 = 8 6. 15 = 10

7. 34 = 8 8. 1

2 = 12 9. 23 = 6

10. 14 = 12 11. 1

2 = 10 12. 23 = 9

13. 6 = 23 14. 8 = 34 15. 4 = 312

16. 4 = 912 17. 2

3 = 12 18. 810 = 5

Visualizing Equivalent Fractions

Practice 3