LESSON 2 Circle Pieces: Red, Pink, Yellow, Blue

You will use circles and pieces of circles to study fractions. Find all the pieces with these colors in your fraction-circle set to use in this lesson.

Use the red, pink, yellow, and blue pieces to answer the questions.

1. Cover the red circle with all one color.
1. How many pink pieces does it take?
2. How many yellows?
3. How many blues?
2. Cover a pink piece with all one color.
1. How many yellow pieces does it take?
2. How many blues?
3. How many blues cover one yellow?
4. Write the color of each of the four different pieces in order from smallest to largest.
5. Which is larger:
1. One yellow or three blues?
2. One pink or three blues?
3. One pink or three yellows?
6. Cover a pink piece with two different colors. How many of each color does it take?
7. Cover the red circle with three different colors. How many of each color does it take?