1. Use your fraction circle pieces to find two fractions greater than .
    2. How do you know that these two fractions are greater than ?
    3. Draw a number line like the one below. Use the benchmarks 0, , and 1 to place your two fractions on the number line. Draw and label a picture of the fraction.
    1. Use your fraction circle pieces to find two fractions less than .
    2. How do you know that your fractions are less than ?
    3. Put your two fractions on the number line you created in Question 3. Draw and label a picture of the fraction.
  1. The red circle is the unit whole. Use your circle pieces to decide if is greater than, less than, or equal to . Show how you decided.
  2. Use the circle pieces to decide if each fraction is greater than, less than, or equal to .
    1. + + + +
    2. 8
    3. + +
    4. + + +
    5. 7
    6. 5
  3. Look at the fractions in Question 6.
    1. Choose a fraction close to .
    2. Choose a fraction close to 1 whole.
    3. Choose a fraction close to zero.
    4. Draw a number line. Put the three fractions from Questions 7A–C on the number line. Draw and label a picture for each fraction.