Identifying Fractions Worksheet: Name the Shaded Part or Shade It

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12 shapes. What fraction is shaded? Circles and strips, halves to eighths. Sheet AYARKP, with its answer key.

What fraction is shaded? Circles and strips, halves to eighths

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Write the fraction that is shaded. The denominator is the number of equal parts in one whole shape; the numerator counts the shaded parts.

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Answer key. What fraction is shaded? Circles and strips, halves to eighths

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How it works

This identifying fractions worksheet opens on twelve circles and strips with some parts shaded and a blank under each. Sheet type turns it into a shading fractions worksheet, mixes both directions, or goes up to tenths and twelfths.

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Count the parts, then the shaded ones

The denominator is the number of equal parts in the whole shape, and the numerator counts the shaded parts: 3 of 8 is 3/8. The key writes each fraction as counted, so 2 of 4 stays 2/4. On the shading sheets any parts may be shaded, and the key says so.

Equal parts come first

A fraction only names parts of the same size. Are the parts equal? Circle the shape or cross it out mixes shapes cut fairly with shapes that are not. Both grade 3 standards texts keep to halves, thirds, fourths, sixths and eighths; the fifths, tenths and twelfths here go further.

For a first lesson print Halves, thirds and fourths only.
One part shaded: write the unit fraction shows that the more parts a shape has, the smaller each part is.

Questions and answers

How do you identify a fraction from a picture?

Check that the parts are equal. Count all the parts for the denominator, then count the shaded parts for the numerator. A circle cut into 4 equal parts with 3 shaded shows 3/4.

What grade is identifying fractions?

Grade 3. Common Core 3.NF.1 defines 1/b as one of b equal parts and a/b as a of those parts, and Texas 3.3(A) asks for fractions shown with pictures, strip diagrams included. Common Core has grade 2 name halves, thirds and fourths in words.

Which parts should a pupil shade?

Any of them. For 3/4, any 3 of the 4 equal parts are right, next to each other or not. The key shades 3 parts and prints that note beside the shape.

Is there an answer key?

Yes. It prints as the last page: the fraction under each shaded shape, or the shape shaded for you. To leave it off, untick Answer key before you press Print.

All 15 sheet types

Name the shaded fraction 8

Circles only, halves to twelfths Circles cut into 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 or 12 equal parts. Tenths and twelfths make thin slices, so the counting has to be careful: 7 shaded parts of 10 is 7/10.
Every part shaded: one whole written as a fraction All the parts are shaded, so the numerator equals the denominator and the fraction is one whole: 4/4 = 1. The pupil writes the fraction and then the 1.
Fifths and tenths to name Shapes cut into 5 or 10 equal parts, the two denominators that lead to decimals: 3 shaded parts of 10 is 3/10.
Halves, thirds and fourths only Only shapes cut into 2, 3 or 4 equal parts, for a first lesson: 2 shaded parts of 3 is 2/3.
More than 1 whole shaded: write it two ways Two or three equal shapes, at least one shaded all over. The parts are counted across all of them and written as an improper fraction, then as a mixed number: 7/4 = 1 3/4. The fraction part is left as counted.

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Name the shaded fraction, continued

One part shaded: write the unit fraction Exactly one part of each shape is shaded, so every answer has the numerator 1: one part of 6 is 1/6. The more parts a shape is cut into, the smaller that one part is.
Strips only, halves to twelfths Long strips in place of circles: count the parts along the strip, then the shaded ones. With 7 of 12 shaded the answer is 7/12.
What fraction is shaded? Circles and strips, halves to eighths The sheet the page opens on: shapes with some parts shaded and a blank under each. Count every part for the denominator and the shaded ones for the numerator. The key gives the fraction as counted, so 2 parts of 4 is 2/4 and is not reduced.

Shade the fraction 4

Shade fifths, tenths and twelfths Empty shapes cut into 5, 10 or 12 equal parts. For 7/10 any 7 of the 10 parts are shaded.
Shade it yourself: circles and strips, halves to eighths The fraction is printed and the shape is empty: for 3/4 the pupil shades any 3 of the 4 equal parts. The key draws one right shading and says that any 3 parts will do.
Shade one part: unit fractions to twelfths Every fraction has the numerator 1, so one part of each shape is shaded: for 1/8, any 1 of the 8 parts.
Strips down the page to shade A column of strips, one to a line, each with its fraction printed beside it. For 9/10 the pupil shades any 9 of the 10 parts.

Name some, shade some 2

Half to name, half to shade: halves to eighths Both directions on one sheet. Where the shape is shaded, the pupil writes the fraction; where a fraction is printed, the pupil shades the shape.
Half to name, half to shade: halves to twelfths The same mixed sheet with fifths, tenths and twelfths added.

Equal parts or not? 1

Are the parts equal? Circle the shape or cross it out Circles, squares and rectangles cut into 2, 3, 4, 6 or 8 parts. About half are cut into equal parts and the others are not. A shape cut into unequal parts cannot be named with a fraction, so the pupil crosses it out. No fraction is written on this sheet.

How this list was compiled: The sheet types were written for this page. What a numerator and a denominator stand for (the denominator says how many equal parts make up a whole, the numerator how many of them are counted) and what a unit fraction is were read on 2026-10-01 at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraction . Where the skill sits in school was read that day in the full text of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (California Department of Education copy, https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/ccssmathstandardaug2013.pdf): 3.NF.1 (a fraction 1/b as one part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts, and a/b as a parts of size 1/b), the grade 3 footnote that limits denominators to 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8, and 3.G.2 (partition shapes into parts with equal areas); and in the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Mathematics (https://tea.texas.gov/laws-and-rules/sboe-rules-tac/sboe-tac-currently-effect/ch111a.pdf): grade 3, 3.3(A) (fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 using pictorial models, including strip diagrams) and 3.3(C) (the unit fraction 1/b as one part of a whole partitioned into b equal parts). Licence: own work