Use Self-Check: Questions 1–5 and the menu to check your progress and choose practice with finding equivalent fractions and comparing fractions using fraction circles, fraction strips, the Fraction Chart, or drawings.

Use the Fraction Chart, fraction strips, or fraction circle pieces to help you solve the following problems.

  1. Name two fractions that are equivalent to .
  2. Name two fractions that are equivalent to .
  3. Jackie divided a rectangle this way and then shaded some squares.

    Write 2 fractions for the part that she shaded.
    1. Luis said, "I can divide the same large rectangle into sixths." He then shaded some squares.

      Do you agree that he has divided the rectangle into sixths? Why or why not?
    2. Luis shaded of the rectangle. What is another fraction for the part he shaded?