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   I am a chef. I like to cook food and share it 

with my friends. One of my favorite things to 

bake is a cake. I usually make sure that all my 

friends get an equal share of the cake. This 

makes sharing and eating together fun!

    I have to share this cake with three of my 

friends. This means, I must divide the cake into 

four equal parts.   It can be easily said that 

fraction is part of a whole. It is made up of two 

parts, namely numerator and denominator. 

     Here's an example of a fraction:

  According to the circle area representation, the 

complete cake is a whole or 1.

  When the whole is divided into two equal parts, 

each part is called a half. Two halves make a 

whole. If a whole is divided into four equal parts 

each part is called a quarter or ¼.

  On dividing the whole cake into four equal parts, 

each one of us will get one fourth ( ¼) of the 

cake. This means that one part out of the four 

parts can be represented as ¼.

    I sometimes bake pizzas on Sunday and invite my 

friends over. After the delicious pizza is baked, I use 

my pizza cutter to divide the pizza into equal parts and 

share it with my friends.

  If I have to share the pizza only with my friend 

Ninja, then we divide it into two parts. This way each 

of us gets one half of the pizza or ½. The denominator 

of the fraction ½ is two and the numerator is one.

  When I have three friends over then we divide the 

pizza into four equal parts. This way, each one of us 

gets 1/4th of the pizza. Hence, for the fraction 1/4 

the denominator is 4.

   One day I invited seven of my friends for a treat. 

I baked a yummy pizza with pepperoni topping. As we 

all wanted to eat it, I divided the pizza into eight 

equal parts. Each one of us got 1/8 th of the whole 

pizza! 

Do you think getting 1/8 of the pizza is better than 

getting 3/8 th of the pizza? Why?

  When I work in my kitchen, I try to cook many 

scrumptious dishes. Sometimes I cut different fruits to 

toss up a healthy fruit salad. The recipe of my yummy 

fruit salad requires me to cut various fruits into 

different fractions. 

       I usually cut an orange into two halves as I need 

to squeeze the juice of only half the orange.

 The kiwi is sliced up into five pieces. I just need 

1/5 of this kiwi. After this I add in a quarter of 

the grapefruit.

  Finally, I can add 1/8 of the total strawberries. 

This means I will use only one out of the eight 

strawberries available!

  Now its time for some music...

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