Fraction Worksheets

What fraction worksheets does this page include?

Printable PDFs in teaching order: identifying fractions from shaded circles and bars, shading a fraction yourself, equivalent fractions with a missing numerator or a missing denominator, comparing fractions, ordering four at a time, fractions on a number line, simplifying, adding and subtracting with like and unlike denominators, improper fractions and mixed numbers in both directions, a fraction of a whole number, multiplying a fraction by a whole number, tenths and hundredths as decimals, word problems, and a blank fraction circles template to color and cut out.

Fractions click when they stay visual for as long as possible. The identifying sheets keep every question tied to a picture, and the number line page moves that picture onto the ruler kids already know. Equivalent fractions are really our times tables in disguise, and checking an answer by simplifying leans on the same facts as our division worksheets, so the three sets reinforce each other.

Like denominators first, on purpose

The first addition sheets stick to like denominators: adding the tops while the bottom stays put is the one rule at this stage, and mixing in unlike denominators too early is where fraction fear starts. When the unlike-denominator pages do arrive, one denominator is always a multiple of the other, so a single rewrite is enough and the page stays about the idea rather than about big numbers.

Beyond the shape

A fraction of a group of counters is a different exercise from a fraction of one circle, and plenty of children can do the second without ever managing the first. The color-a-fraction-of-a-group pages and the fraction-of-a-number pages exist for exactly that gap. Same big print and answer boxes as the rest of our math worksheets. Print at 100% scale on US Letter or A4, free for classrooms and homeschools with no sign-up. If all of this still feels far away, the math ladder starts at our kindergarten math worksheets.

And if the whole-number places themselves are the weak spot, step back to our place value worksheets before coming to fractions.

A remainder is a fraction waiting to be written, which is why the long division worksheets sit right beside this set: they are where the leftover first appears, and where it is later carried on past the decimal point.