What’s on the Comparing Fractions poster
The rule, 4 worked examples.
- Make the denominators match, or the numerators match, or compare each against a half.
- 3/5 vs 5/8 → 24/40 vs 25/40
- Same bottom = compare the tops
- Same top = smaller bottom wins
- Neither = find a common denominator
- Benchmark = compare each to 1/2
The benchmark method is fastest in a test. Use it before reaching for a common denominator.
Questions about the Comparing Fractions poster
- What’s on the Comparing Fractions poster?
- The rule, 4 worked examples. Make the denominators match, or the numerators match, or compare each against a half.; 3/5 vs 5/8 → 24/40 vs 25/40; Same bottom = compare the tops; Same top = smaller bottom wins; Neither = find a common denominator; Benchmark = compare each to 1/2. The benchmark method is fastest in a test. Use it before reaching for a common denominator.
- Who is the Comparing Fractions poster for?
- Comparing Fractions is filed under 5th Grade (ages 10–11), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting math, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.
- When should you use the Comparing Fractions poster?
- Point at the rule they need instead of reteaching the whole topic. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Comparing Fractions belongs on the wall where that math work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Comparing Fractions?
- Adding Unlike Fractions, Dividing Fractions and Multiplying Fractions sit alongside Comparing Fractions in the 5th Grade set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Adding Unlike FractionsDividing FractionsMultiplying Fractions
- Is the Comparing Fractions poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Comparing Fractions downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the 5th Grade set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Comparing Fractions poster print at?
- Comparing Fractions is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Comparing Fractions loses nothing.Printing guide
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