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You draw a circle, and divide it into several equal parts - for example, 4 equal parts. Then you select some of those parts - for example, 3, by drawing them in some special color or shading them.

Using a circle is convenient, because then, even if you divide it into pieces, it is visually quite clear that it is part of something greater.

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How do you describe a fraction?

You would describe a fraction as a part of a whole.


What is the definition of the term 'fraction'?

A fraction is a mathematical term used to describe part of a whole, as in if a whole was divided into X number of pieces. A fraction consists of a numerator, which describes a number of parts, and a denominator, which describes how many parts are necessary to make a whole. For example, three-fourths means that we have three parts and there are four parts that make a whole so we have three-fourths of a whole.


What are the 2 parts in a fraction?

2 parts in a fraction = numerator and denominator


How many parts are in the fraction bar?

12 parts are in a fraction bar


What is the 2 parts of fraction?

2 parts of fraction = the numerator and the denominator


When you are shading in a fraction is the fraction represented by the shaded parts or the non shaded parts?

The shaded parts


Parts to a fraction?

There are three parts to a fraction, there is the numerator (the top number), the denominator (the bottom number) and the vinculum (the line in the middle which means 'divide by'-


What does a fraction mean?

Fraction Basically means dividing different shape(or other things) into parts, and then finding out the numerator, which tells you the fraction.


What is the term for the part of the fraction that names the amount of parts being counted?

The number of parts being counted is the numerator of a fraction The number of parts into which the whole has been divided is the denominator of a fraction.


What does the denominator tell you in a fraction?

How many parts of the total you have in the fraction.


What a fraction?

A fraction is a way of representing a division of a 'whole' into 'parts'.


What in a fraction tells the total number of parts?

In the original fraction it is the denominator but if the fraction has been simplified you are out of luck. There is no way to recover the value of the total (nor the parts) from a simplified fraction.