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Subtracting Fractions

QR Code Scavenger Hunt - Answer Key by Mr. Casale

NYS CC Standard: 4.NF.3.a

Category: Number and Operations- Fractions 3

Sub Category: Build Fractions From Unit Fractions By Applying and Extending

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Understandings of Operations on Whole Numbers.

Description: Understand addition and subtraction of fractions as joining and separating

parts

referring to the same whole.

Theme: Casales Pizza Shop

Directions: Write the solution to the word problem in the form of a fraction with denominator 8

(for 8 slices of pizza). Remember that one whole pizza is 8/8.

1. Billy calls into Casales Pizza Shop and orders one pizza.

He wants his pizza to be half pepperoni and half cheese.

How much of the pizza is just cheese? 8/8 - 4/8 = 4/8

2. Franklin goes to Casales Pizza Shop and orders one pizza.

He wants his pizza to be one-quarter sausage and the rest

cheese.

How much of the pizza is sausage? 8/8 - 6/8 = 2/8

3. Sarah walks to Casales Pizza Shop and orders two pizzas.

She wants one pizza to be vegetable and one to be pepperoni.

How much of the pizzas are pepperoni? 16/8 - 8/8 = 8/8


4. Teddy calls Casales Pizza Shop and orders one pizza.

He wants his pizza to be one-quarter mushroom and the rest

onions.

How much of the pizza is onions? 8/8 - 2/8 = 6/8

5. Paige calls Casales Pizza Shop and orders one pizza.

She wants her pizza to have one slice olives, one slice onions,

and the rest cheese.

How much of the pizza is olives? 8/8 - 1/8 - 6/8 = 1/8

6. Amanda goes to Casales Pizza Shop and picks up her pizza.

She ordered her pizza to be one-quarter cheese, one-quarter

olives, and the rest vegetable.

How much of her pizza is vegetable? 8/8 - 2/8 - 2/8 = 4/8

7. Michael goes to Casales Pizza Shop and orders three pizzas.

He wants one pizza to be pepperoni, one to be sausage, and

one to be just cheese.

How much of the pizzas have toppings? 24/8 - 8/8 = 16/8

8. Nick calls Casales Pizza Shop and orders one pizza.

He wants half to be mushrooms and onions and half to be

pepperoni.

How much of the pizza is only mushroom? 8/8 - 8/8 = 0/8

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