Express Equal Parts as Unit Fractions of the Whole

Imagine one chocolate bar to share equally with six friends. How much does each friend get?

Here is the whole bar — one whole chocolate.

Here is the bar sliced into six equal pieces, so the sharing is fair.

Count with me: one, two, three, four, five, six equal parts.

Now look at just one piece. We want to name how big it is compared to the whole.

The whole is split into six equal parts, so we write six on the bottom — that's the denominator.

We're talking about just one of those parts, so we write one on top — that's the numerator.

We read this as 'one-sixth'. Each piece is one-sixth of the whole bar.

When a shape is split into six equal parts, each equal part is one-sixth of the whole. Nice work!

Now you try. Choose the name of this shape from the list. Which name matches the drawing?