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Activity Century #Experiential Learning
Skills

1. Take 2 Origami sheets and divide them into halves in as many
different ways as you can. (Teacher can assist the students.)
2. Now, take a rectangular sheet of paper and divide it into 3 equal
parts and 4 equal parts.

21 st
Pictorial representation of folding the sheets Century #Subject Enrichment
Skills
Divide the given rectangles into 3 equal parts in as many
ways as you can. Shade one part of each rectangle.

Now, divide the given rectangle into 6 equal parts.

WriTing FrACTionS

We represent a fraction in the following way:

Number of parts shaded or coloured
Fraction =
Total number of equal parts made

Look at the shaded parts of the following figures. Write the fraction for the shaded
parts.

a. b. c. d.

Figure Parts made Parts shaded Fraction
2
a. 6 2
6

1
b. 2 1
2
3
c. 8 3
8
1
d. 4 1
4

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