About this video
One circle is one whole, split into 3 equal pieces called thirds. Below, more circles are shaded in blue, and counting the shaded thirds gives five thirds, 5/3, which is more than one whole.
You'll be able to
- use a whole split into thirds to count shaded pieces.
- name a fraction greater than 1, like 5/3.
Key words
- whole
- One complete thing; here, one full circle.
- third
- One of 3 equal pieces of a whole, written 1/3.
- five thirds
- Five pieces that are each 1/3, written 5/3.
Transcript
- [Voiceover] This circle represents one whole. This circle right here represents one whole. If we know that, we can answer what fraction of the circle is shaded in blue below? So down here. What fraction is in blue? Let's start back up here with the whole. This whole is divided into one, two, three equal size pieces, so it's divided into thirds, three equal size pieces.
And each of those pieces, each of those pie pieces, is 1/3, is one of the thirds. So knowing that, let's go down here to these ones and lets see how many of these 1/3 pieces. Here's 1/3, another 1/3, another 1/3 shaded in blue, another one and another one. So we have one, two, three, four, five thirds.
We have 5/3 shaded in blue below.
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