This math skill teaches how to determine the fraction that represents a point on a number line when the point falls between whole numbers. It involves identifying the total number of equal parts in a segment and determining the number of these parts that the point represents.
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Number lines and simple fractions
Test your understanding of simple fractions on a number line by practicing it! Work through the below exercises to use it in practice.
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This dot is on the number line, but not on a whole number. Let's find the fraction that best describes where it is.
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We can see that the whole number, one, has been split up into 6 parts
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Our dot is on the fourth of these 6. That is all a fraction is, how many parts, out of how many parts in a whole
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So our dot is at four sixths.