Video Transcript
Jackson has shaded part of this
whole. Fill in the blank: what parts out
of five are shaded. What fraction is shaded?
In this question, we’re shown a
model and we can see that Jackson has shaded part of the whole. In the first part of the question,
we have to write the number of parts out of the five equal parts Jackson has
shaded. We know the whole amount shows five
equal parts. Jackson has shaded three of them
orange, so we can say that three parts out of five are shaded.
In the second part of the question,
we have to write this as a fraction. The bottom number in a fraction is
called the denominator. This tells us the number of equal
parts our shape has been divided into. We know there are five equal
parts. And when we divide a shape into
five equal parts, we call each part a fifth. And we know the numerator or the
number on top is a three because Jackson has shaded three out of the five equal
parts. So the missing number is three. Three parts out of five are
shaded. Three out of five equal parts is
equal to three-fifths.
