Year 3 Non-unit fractions worksheet

“Fractions with more parts” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 3 maths unit “Non-unit fractions”, for children aged 7 to 8, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 29 to 31 of the year, 10 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Fractions with more parts

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 3 · Maths · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can recognise a non-unit fraction and count all the equal parts in the whole.

A Look back3 min

1.
What fraction of the circle is shaded? Circle the right one.
one-quarterone-halfthree-quarters
2.
4 + 4 + 4 =
3.
How many thirds make one whole?

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ali's chocolate bar has 5 equal pieces. He gives 3 of them to Bea.

Watch me

The bar is split into 5 equal pieces, so the bottom number is 5.

Ali gives 3 pieces to Bea. They are coloured.

So Bea gets three-fifths of the bar.

Now you

1.
Which fraction is shaded? Circle the right one.
two-sixthstwo-thirdsfour-sixths

C Your turn5 min

Each shape has 3 coloured parts. Only the whole changes.

1.
3 of the equal parts are coloured. The whole is split into equal parts.
2.
3 of the equal parts are coloured. The whole is split into equal parts.
3.
3 of the equal parts are coloured. The whole is split into equal parts.
4.
3 of the equal parts are coloured. The whole is split into equal parts.

Say it out loud: What changed from one row to the next? What stayed the same?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Mia says: “3 parts are coloured, so the fraction is three-thirds.”

1.
How many equal parts is the whole split into?

E Think deeper4 min

1.
Priya says the coloured part is four-sixths, because 6 parts are not coloured. Is she right? Tell a grown-up how you know.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Fractions with more parts · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. one-quarter

2. 12

3. 3

B

1. two-sixths

C

1. 4 If your child writes 3, they have counted only the coloured parts. Ask them to count every part, coloured or not.

2. 5

3. 6

4. 8 If your child writes 3 again, they are still counting the coloured parts. The bottom number needs every equal part in the shape.

D

1. 8 your child has counted the coloured parts, which is 3. Count every equal part in the whole, then say the fraction is three-eighths.

E

1. Look for: No, four-tenths: 10 equal parts make the whole and 4 are coloured. The 6 uncoloured parts are not the total.

Words to use

Say“Name the total number of equal parts before anything else, then the coloured ones.”

Instead of“Tell them the answer is three-eighths and move on.”

After the sheet

Fold a strip of paper into 8 equal parts, colour 3, and ask them to write the fraction and say what the 8 means.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

9 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Naming non-unit fractions(with a plan)
Equal parts everywhere(with a plan)
Finding the whole(with a plan)
Finding the whole(with a plan)
Fractions on a number line(with a plan)
Which fraction is greater?(with a plan)
Bigger bottom, smaller piece(with a plan)
Same top, different bottom(with a plan)
Which Fraction Is Bigger?(with a plan)

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