Fractions Basic 1 - Name the Shaded Part

💡Tips for Parents

▸ Why It Matters Using nine pizza-shaped circles sliced into groups of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12 equal pieces, this worksheet is your child's first real encounter with writing a fraction on paper. Each picture is something they can count with a finger, and that counting becomes the numerator-over-denominator notation they will lean on in every fraction lesson from here forward. Because the shaded wedges are always grouped into one solid slice rather than scattered, your child can focus entirely on counting rather than hunting for colored pieces, keeping this first fraction experience approachable rather than overwhelming. ▸ Getting Started Point out the first pizza together — it is a worked example with the fraction already filled in light gray, so use it to show what a finished answer looks like before your child tackles the rest alone. For each remaining pizza, have them count the shaded slices out loud first, then count every slice in the whole circle, including the shaded ones. The bottom number, the denominator, records how many equal parts make up the whole; the top number, the numerator, records how many of those parts are colored. Say it together as "so many out of so many" so the spoken words match the written symbols. ▸ If They Get Stuck If a pizza with eight, ten, or twelve slices feels like too many to track by eye, let your child put a small pencil dot on each slice as they count it, going around once for the total and once more for the shaded portion. A real pizza, a round cookie, or a paper circle cut into equal wedges works just as well if they would rather touch pieces than only look at a drawing. When a fraction comes out upside down, resist the urge to simply mark it wrong — walk back through the counting together and ask which number they counted first, since that usually reveals exactly where the numerator and denominator got swapped. ▸ Praise Points Watch for your child pausing to check that all the slices in a shape truly look the same size before counting — that instinct to confirm "equal parts" is the seed of real fraction sense, not just a counting trick. Also praise any moment they count the twelve-slice pizza calmly instead of rushing, since larger totals are exactly where careless slips creep in. A finished page, even with a mistake or two, is well worth celebrating as a genuine first step into fraction thinking.

🎯What This Worksheet Builds

This worksheet gives your child their first hands-on introduction to fractions, using nine pizza-shaped circles divided into 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12 equal slices, with the shaded portion always grouped into one solid wedge rather than scattered. By counting the shaded slices and total slices for each pizza, starting from a worked example with the answer filled in, your child builds the link between a picture they can count and the numerator-over-denominator notation used in every fraction lesson that follows.

👉Next Step

Once your child can write these fractions confidently without hesitating or second-guessing, move on to fraction-basic-02, where the very same pizza slices are scattered randomly around the circle instead of sitting together as one solid wedge. That change means counting the shaded pieces requires scanning the whole shape carefully rather than recognizing a single grouped section at a glance, adding a small but meaningful step up in difficulty.