Video Transcript
Emma has shaded part of this
whole. Fill in the blanks: what out of
what equal parts are shaded. What fraction is shaded?
In this question, we’re told that
Emma has shaded part of this whole. The whole means the whole
shape. In the first part of the question,
we have to fill in the missing numbers. And we have to write the number of
parts which are shaded out of the number of equal parts altogether. Did you count the number of shaded
parts? There are four. Four parts of this shape have been
shaded blue. How many equal parts has this shape
been divided into? Let’s just keep on counting. We counted the four shaded
parts. Here’s another part; that makes
five, six. Four out of six equal parts are
shaded.
How do we write this as a
fraction? The numerator or the number on the
top is the number of shaded parts. And the number on the bottom or the
denominator tells us how many equal parts there are. When we divide a shape into six
equal parts, we call each part a sixth, so the fraction of the shape that is shaded
is four-sixths.
