Welcome to the Math Salamanders How to learn Fractions using information cards.
Here you will find a selection of free printable fraction information cards that will
help your child learn their Fraction facts and their percent and decimal equivalences for fifths and sixths.
On this webpage, you will find some helpful fraction information, and printable resource cards.
On each information card, you will find a complete sheet all about a given fraction, including examples of shapes with the given fraction shaded, and showing where the fraction sits on a number line.
This resource page cover fifths and sixths.
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A fraction is a number which contains parts of a whole.
In the example below, the fraction shaded is 2/5 because 2 parts out of 5 are shaded.
The parts have to be equal in size!
Fractions can be smaller than or larger than one (one whole).
In the example below, there is 4/3 shaded (or 11/3).
Below are some common conversions for fractions into decimals and percents.
Fraction | Equivalent to | Decimal | Percent |
1/2 2/2 1/3 2/3 3/3 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4 1/5 2/5 3/5 4/5 5/5 1/6 2/6 3/6 4/6 5/6 6/6 1/8 2/8 3/8 4/8 5/8 6/8 7/8 8/8 1/10 2/10 3/10 4/10 5/10 6/10 7/10 8/10 9/10 10/10 |
1/2 1 1/3 2/3 1 1/4 1/2 3/4 1 1/5 2/5 3/5 4/5 5/5 1/6 1/3 1/2 2/3 5/6 1 1/8 1/4 3/8 1/2 5/8 3/4 7/8 1 1/10 1/5 3/10 2/5 1/2 3/5 7/10 4/5 9/10 1 |
0.5 1.0 0.333 0.667 1.0 0.25 0.5 0.75 1.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 0.167 0.333 0.5 0.666 0.833 1.0 0.125 0.25 0.375 0.5 0.625 0.75 0.875 1.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 |
50% 100% 33.3% 66.7% 100% 25% 50% 75% 100% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 16.7% 33.3% 50% 66.7% 83.3% 100% 12.5% 25% 37.5% 50% 62.5% 75% 87.5% 100% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% |
Where a digit is underlined, it means that the number has been rounded to 3 decimal places, or to the nearest 0.1%.
Here you will find a selection of Fraction Information Cards designed to help your child how to learn Fractions.
Each fraction card comes in 3 different formats:
Using these fraction information cards will help your child to:
All the free printable How to learn fractions cards in this section support the Elementary Math Benchmarks.
In this section you will find our fraction information cards for halves, thirds and fourths.
Each card is available in three different formats - a printable display card and an easier and harder worksheet.
Here you will find a selection of Fraction Strips designed to help your child understand their unit Fractions.
Using Fraction Strips is a great way to learn your Fraction facts and help you to understand exactly how much fractions are worth.
They are also a great resource for equivalent fractions, and can show children visually that a half is the same as two-fourths or three-sixths.
Using these fraction strips will help your child to:
All the free printable Math Fraction Strips in this section follow the Elementary Math Benchmarks.
Here you will find the Math Salamanders free online Math help pages about Fractions.
There is a wide range of help pages including help with:
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