Grade
3

Guess My Rule: Fraction Expressions

A Venn diagram with a red circle and a blue circle. Outside the circles are 7-fourths, 10-sixths, and 3 times 5. The red circle has 12-fourths, 12-sixths, 6 halves, and the fraction 8 over 1. The blue circle has 10 minus 9, 1 times 1, 0 + 1 and (3 times 5) minus 14. The overlap section has 3-thirds and 8-eighths.
  1. Some numbers belong in the circles, and some do not. What is the rule to be in the red circle? What is the rule to be in the blue circle? What is the rule to be in both circles
  2. Write at least one more example that belongs only in the red circle.
  3. Write at least one more example that belongs only in the blue circle.
  4. Write at least one more example that belongs in the overlapped section.
  5. Where would you place the fraction ¹¹⁄₄ ? Why?

Make your own rules about fractions. Download the circles below or draw your own.

If possible, show some examples that belong inside each circle and some examples that don’t belong in either circle.

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