Introduction
Subhash gets invited by his friend Farida to share her snack. She has five apples in her box.
Can you help them divide the apples among them equally?
Please drag and drop the apples in the boxes, first one to Subhash, second one to Farida and so on.
But now we have only one apple.
How do we distribute it?
Click on the left out apple. Now we have cut the apple into two equal parts. Drag each part to the boxes.
Subhash knew that one-half is written as
If a full apple contains 4 parts then a half apple is equal to
While eating, he further divided his half into two smaller equal parts and asked Farida what fraction of the whole apple was that one piece?
Without answering, Farida also divided her portion of the half apple into two equal parts and kept them beside Subhash’s shares. She said that these four equal parts together make
So, each equal part is one-fourth of one whole apple and 4 parts together will be
While they ate, they discussed what they had learnt earlier. Three parts out of 4 equal parts is
Similarly,
We have 5 apples divide the apple into equal parts and distribute them between Subhash and Farida.
Subhash got how many apples?
Farida got how many apples?
A fraction is a number representing a part of a whole. The whole may be a single object or a group of objects and the multiple parts are all equal.