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All Aboard! Fractions on the Toy Train

Grade 3 fractions practice with toy trains: name 1/b as one of b equal cars and read a/b as a cars of size 1/b.

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Aligned to3.NF.A.1

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 11 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 3
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students name one of b equal parts of a whole as the unit fraction 1/b.
  • Students read a fraction a/b as a parts that are each 1/b of the whole.
  • Students tell what the numerator and denominator of a fraction mean.

How to use

Use after introducing unit fractions. Before starting, show a strip of paper folded into equal parts and have students say each fraction as parts, such as "3/8 is 3 parts of size 1/8."

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

3.NF.A.1

Understand a unit fraction 1/b as one of b equal parts, and a/b as a of those parts.

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All Aboard! Fractions on the Toy Train

Name unit fractions and build fractions from equal train cars.

Cars on the train

Every toy train on this page is made of equal cars. Each bar is one whole train.

1.
Which train has exactly 1/6 of the train shaded?
  • A.
  • B.
  • C.
  • D.
2.
Each car of the red train is 1/3 of the whole train. Each car of the blue train is 1/7 of the whole train.

The red train has   cars. The blue train has   cars.

3.
The shaded cars carry toy coal.


  of the   equal cars carry coal. So   of the train carries coal.

4.
Each car of Ray's toy train is 1/5 of the whole train. Ray paints 4/5 of the train green. Each car is all one color.

Ray's train has   equal cars.   cars are green, and   car is not green.

Parts of the whole

Think about how many equal parts make the whole and how many parts you have.

5.
Match each description to its fraction. One fraction is not used.
  1. 1 of 6 equal parts
  2. 5 parts, each 1/8 of the whole
  3. 2 parts, each 1/3 of the whole
  4. 3 of 4 equal parts
  1. A. 2/3
  2. B. 4/3
  3. C. 3/4
  4. D. 1/6
  5. E. 5/8
6.
In the fraction 5/6, what does the 6 tell you?
  • A. 5 parts are shaded.
  • B. 6 parts are shaded.
  • C. There are 6 wholes.
  • D. The whole is cut into 6 equal parts.
7.
The round train table is cut into equal parts. Trains are parked on the shaded parts.


Each part is   of the table.   parts are shaded, so   of the table is shaded.

8.
Sort each fraction by the size of one part.
3/45/62/81/67/81/4
Made of parts of size 1/4Made of parts of size 1/6Made of parts of size 1/8

Train stories

Read each story about equal train cars.

9.
Lena's toy train has 6 equal cars. She loads toy logs into 5 of the cars. The other car is empty.

Lena loads logs into   of the train. The empty car is   of the train.

10.
Ms. Kim's toy train has 8 equal cars. She paints 3 of the cars blue. Which model has only the blue cars shaded?
  • A.
  • B.
  • C.
  • D.
11.
Draw a toy train with 7 equal cars. Shade 2/7 of the train. Explain how you knew how many cars to draw and how many to shade.

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