Unit Fractions
Fraction Information Cards

Welcome to our Unit Fractions 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 fraction where the numerator is one.

Unit Fractions Information Cards

How to learn Fractions

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 tenths.

What is a fraction?

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!

pentagon with 2/5 shaded


Fractions can be smaller than or larger than one (one whole).

In the example below, there is 4/3 shaded (or 11/3).

four thirds circles shaded


Fractions Decimals Percents

Below are some common conversions for fractions into decimals and percents.

Fraction Decimal Percent
1/2
1/3
1/4
1/5
1/6
1/7
1/8
1/9
1/10
1/11
1/12
0.5
0.333
0.25
0.2
0.167
0.143
0.125
0.111
0.1
0.091
0.083
50%
33.3%
25%
20%
16.7%
14.3%
12.5%
11.1%
10%
9.1%
8.03%

Where a digit is underlined, it means that the number has been rounded to 3 decimal places or 0.1%.

Unit Fraction Information Cards

Here you will find a selection of Fraction Information Cards designed to help your child how to learn unit fractions and their conversion facts.

Each fraction card comes in 3 different formats:

  • The first format is a color printable fraction information page showing the fraction in different representations.
  • The second format is a simple worksheet which involves shading the correct amount of each shape which has been divided up and also placing the fraction correctly on a number line.
  • The third format is a harder worksheet which involves writing down the correct decimal and percentage for each fraction as well as shading the correct amount of each undivided shape and placing the fraction on a number line.

Using these fractions decimals percents information cards will help your child to:

  • understand different representation of a range of fractions;
  • begin to learn how to place unit fractions correctly on a fraction line;
  • know decimal and percent equivalence for each fraction;

Unit Fractions Cards

More Fraction Worksheets

Here you will find a selection of our Fraction Worksheets pages.

Using these sheets will help your child to:

  • understand what fractions are;
  • relate fractions to everyday objects and quantities;
  • place different fractions on a number line;
  • shade in different fractions of a shapes;
  • work out unit fractions of numbers.

All the Third Grade Math Worksheets in this section follow the Elementary Math Benchmarks for Third Grade.

Learning Fractions Math Help Page

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:

  • fraction definitions;
  • equivalent fractions;
  • converting improper fractions;
  • how to add and subtract fractions;
  • how to convert fractions to decimals and percentages;
  • how to simplify fractions.
 

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