Math 131
Spring 04
More Fraction Strips
1. Use your strips to find the following:
a. Half of b. Half of
c. Half of
d. One-third of e. One-third of
f. One-third of
g. One-fourth of h. One-fourth of
i. One-fourth of
j. What patterns do you notice? Can you justify them?
2. For each of the
following, decide whether the answer is greater or less than and also whether the answer is greater or less
than 1. You don’t have to actually
compute the answers:
Greater/Less than 1/2? Greater/Less than 1?
a.
b.
c.
d.
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