Let's help Jane and her friends!
- A slice of ham is being cut into 4 equal parts. Each child gets one part of the ham. What is the fraction each child will get?
- A big piece of cheese is cut into 12 equal pieces. After each child takes a piece, what fraction of the cheese is left?
- Jessica needs one whole round piece of ham to make her pizza but she only has 2/7 of ham. What fraction of the ham does she still need?
- Sam uses ¼ of ham, 1/12 of cheese and ⅕ of pineapple ring. Arrange the fractions in ascending order (smallest to greatest).
- John used ¾ of tomato and Jamie used ⅗ of tomato, who used more tomatoes?
(Hint for Questions 4 & 5: Refer to the Resources section on Comparing fractions.)
- Jamie used ½ an hour to bake her pizza. How many minutes did she take?
- Jessica wants to share her pizza with John,Sam and Jamie such that each person gets one piece. She should cut the pizza into slices of _____?
- 32 children will be coming to the party. Show how you would cut the 4 pizzas such that each child will have one piece of pizza.
Jessica Sam
3/8 4/8
John Jamie
5/8 8/8
b) Jessica, Sam, John and Jamie ate one slice of pizza each from Sam’s pizza.
Shade the number of pieces eaten from Sam’s pizza in the diagram above.
10. According to Question 9, how much more pizza will Jessica have than John?
