Fractions in the Real World 2024/25 by

Mathilda

2024-01-04 20:14:54 UTC

Fractions are everywhere they're just a whole thing or a number divided into pieces.

I make fractions when I cut pizza for dinner into equal slices. I also use fractions when I'm baking by using certain measurments.

Charlie

2024-01-04 20:24:27 UTC

Fractions can be used in many different for instance pizza there is 5 kids and all of them want pizza so they have to split it in to fifths

or pie...

Alma

2024-01-04 21:23:48 UTC

Fractions are all over. I use fractions when i have a huge chocolate bar and I have to split it in between my family of four. I also use fractions when baking cutting cakes, measurement cups bowls and pans. Lastly I use fractions when i do ballet, my teacher says lift your leg lets say 1/4.

Teigen

2024-01-04 21:49:50 UTC

Fractions are used all the time. I normally use fractions when I bake. For example: I need 1/10 of flour or 3/10n of sugar.

I also use fractions when I eat pizza i normally get 1/8 .

Henry

2024-01-04 21:56:53 UTC

Fractions are everywhere. For example right here this is a burger cut in half. fractions are important in my house because i have three siblings. So everything is divided into fourths . When i get a chocolate bar it has 8 squares so we halve it and halve it again so we each get 2 eights or 2 squares.

Daniel

2024-01-04 21:58:06 UTC

Fractions in the real world can be replicated by using a birthday cake as an example. An example of a scenario would be: there were 2 cakes and 16 people and each person would eat the same amount, then one person would eat 1/8 of a cake.

Avery

2024-01-04 22:16:52 UTC

Fractions can be used in everything even video games. I see obvious fractions in cake because if someone eats a cake and if there is 1 piece off of the cake, the fraction would be 3/4.

Ryo

2024-01-04 22:25:48 UTC

Fractions are used in many ways. People use it for amounts every person gets when they split something, like a pizza or cake. Another big use for fractions is when a number is in between like shoe sizes or heights. For example, there are 20 cookies and 17 kids. Everybody can get 1 cookie and about 1/10 of a cookie.

Very specifically, every person would get 1.1764058824 or 1 and 1764058824/10000000000

Zayn :)

2024-01-04 22:27:19 UTC

Fractions are all around us. To support this statement I shall share the example of a Hershey's bar. I have a Hershey's bar and it has 12 pieces and I give 6 to my friends, now I have 6/12 which is half of 12 so its also known as 1/2, I have 1/2 of a Hershey's bar for myself.

Ana

2024-01-04 22:33:01 UTC

Fractions can be used in any way at all time. We can use fractions when baking for example. further more we can cut something in equal sizes or pieces and to tell the time.

For instance if we have a piece of cake and there is 4 children we will cut the cake in 4th.

Darya

31dgozalov1_1 — 2024-01-04 22:48:50 UTC

Fractions can be everywhere. The most where I use fractions are when I have pizza. If its a family dinner, typically my family would ask me to cut them into fifths.

If my family of 4 each have one, we'll usually save it for later or someone would eat it, or divide the pizza into quarters.

John

2024-01-04 22:58:03 UTC

Fractions can be anywhere, even at your birthday party. We cut the cake into many pieces to hand out to our family and friends. In the picture, there are 8 slices, so each person will get 1 slice or 1/8th of the whole.

Christopher

2024-01-04 23:13:08 UTC

Fractions are everywhere. I use fractions by dividing a brownie or cutting a cake.

Lucy

2024-01-04 23:16:38 UTC

Fractions can be anywhere from at home or on the road even in food. In this photo i got it shows that a pizza is cut into 6 slices. So if there were 6 people then each person would get 1 piece.

Maya

2024-01-04 23:16:51 UTC

Fraction can be all around you. You use fractions to measure, with money, to cut cake, pizza, pie etc. I use fractions when I eat pizza with my family and much more. Fractions can be split differently, though - In squares, in rectangles, in circles etc. Fractions are never whole number and they always have a numerator and a denominator.

Gabi

2024-01-04 23:31:09 UTC

Fractions are everywhere in life. This pie has 8 slices and I have 7 friends at my house. Everybody will get one eighth.

Olivia

2024-01-04 23:32:26 UTC

Fractions are used every day. On my birthday, we have cake. usually we would cut the pieces into 8 pieces. Only 8 people usually have cake. That means that every person who wants cake can get 1/8 of the cake.

Lukas

2024-01-04 23:44:26 UTC

Fractions are used in daily life in many ways, and sometimes you might not even notice.

Fractions are used many times while trying to share something equally, something like food or money. Sharing equally is very important, which is why fractions are very important as well. If we did not have fractions, sharing things would become much more difficult, and many could complain that they did not get their fair share.

Fractions can be used for making percentages easier to understand, which could be useful for making sure someone else could understand you. An example of turning a decimal to a fraction could be turning .33 into 1/3, which is much more simple, and if you read it out it sounds a lot better. Because fractions are good for turning decimals into something simple, many people use fractions for dividing/counting money or time. Many people say 1/2 past 3, which is 3:30, which is an example of how it can be used for time. If you split money evenly between yourselves and your friends, you could say something like this,"each one of us gets 1/3 of the money".

Raya

2024-01-04 23:55:03 UTC

Fractions can mean a lot for example this cook has multiple cakes and the sizes are all different which means they are in different pieces, one of the cakes can be split into 5 pieces and one can be split into 2 pieces but the sizes of the pieces are different.

Isabelle

2024-01-05 00:07:20 UTC

Fractions are all over. I use them to split things into pieces, like cutting a cake into pieces like in this photo. I also see (and use) fractions when I use money, when I am using time, and I use them a LOT when I am cooking. They are in measuring cups and in things like tablespoons. Fractions are used to split things evenly. Me and my little brother get a fair share of everything, we both get the same amount of sweets, and other things. When we get something, for example pizza, we split it into slices so I get a fair amount. Pizza is usually 6 slices, so I get 1/6 and my brother gets 1/6. Together we ate 2/6 of the pizza. If there is more than one person then each person will get the same amount and that would be using fractions. I am always using fractions!

Gloria

2024-01-05 00:37:58 UTC

Fractions are everywhere. For example, this is my box of acrylic markers, there should be 60 markers in the box but 2 of them are missing. The fraction of the markers I still have is 58/60 which is 29/30, the fraction of the markers that are missing is 2/60 which is also 1/30.

Elena

2024-01-05 00:47:15 UTC

Fractions are everywhere.For example, these are my anime dolls. There are 3/3. If i would take away 2 it would be 1/3 if i took away 1 it would be 2/3. Fractions can be used in all the things possible.Pizza,cakes,pillows,drawing,etc...

Fractions always have a numerator and denominator and can be split in different ways.For example squares,diamonds,or rectangles.If you would have to split the anime dolls into 2 for 2 people it would be fiscally unable to split but mathematically you would get 1.50/3 because you would split the middle so each will get 1 doll and a half.

Lucia

2024-01-05 01:07:24 UTC

I love baking, and I use fractions quite often, like when I double or half a recipe, or when I use my set of measuring spoons. For example, there is half a cup, or a quarter cup.

Lucian

2024-01-05 01:18:57 UTC

Fractions can be used in ways like,Measuring height, like measuring 6/ and half or seven ten in these instances this shows that Measuring height is a type of Fraction because they correspond with the unit.

Caden

2024-01-05 01:22:07 UTC

Fractions are an Important part of math that you see in your everyday life. For example, you're cutting a pizza into 8 equal pieces. that's a fraction. Or, you're giving a cashier 3 dollars and 25 cents. that's a fraction. Or, you're measuring the height of an orange (I don't know why you would do that but whatever) and it's 90 millimeters. that's 9 centimeters. that's a fraction.

Jack

2024-01-05 01:34:43 UTC

Fractions are everywhere, especially in the kitchen. For example in this photo there is a whole plate of oranges (or 12/12) but one is not in the plate so that means that there are 11/12 on the plate or 1/12 is missing.

Guillaume

2024-01-05 10:57:01 UTC

Fractions can be found everywhere if you look. Most likely you'll see a few every day! For example, fractions in cooking. You must put a certain amount of sugar in a recipe like pancakes. You would use these measuring cups. Each measuring cup is a fraction of a whole cup, or a whole cup itself. Pancakes call for 1/4 cup of sugar and 1 3/4 cups of milk.

Juwon

2024-01-05 14:44:50 UTC

there are 4/4 pizza slices and there are 4 random kids how can they share it equaly?

Avighna

2024-01-05 23:30:37 UTC

Fractions are in some of our most everyday items. Like a pizza or a chocolate bar. Fractions are parts of a whole object such as a square or circle. For example, a Hershey's chocolate bar. They separate the whole into squares so you can easily break them apart and eat that chocolate goodness. I use fractions for that and pizza.

Aadit

2024-01-07 19:18:46 UTC

Fractions can be used in everyday life.

One example is that there are 4/4 of the pizza slices, or 1 whole pizza. However, this isn't exactly everyday life, as you don't eat pizza every day (or at least, I don't).

fractions

2024-01-21 18:33:42 UTC

Fractions are important because they tell you what portion of a whole you need, have, or want. Fractions are used in baking to tell how much of an ingredient to use. Fractions are used in telling time; each minute is a fraction of the hour.