Fraction Word Problems

How the lesson starts: Fraction Word Problems

Captain Zara's ship
Ahoy! Meet Captain Zara and her parrot Pip on the good ship Jolly Muffin. Every day they measure water and rope in fractions. Let's turn their sea stories into fraction math!
Story clue words
Story words tell you what to do. Used, poured out, cut off and gave away mean take away, so subtract. Added, more, put back and collects mean join, so add. Find the clue words before you solve!
Cut the rope
Zara has a rope 7/8 m long. She cuts off 3/8 m to tie a sail. Cut off means take away, so subtract. 7/8 − 3/8 = 4/8. In simplest form, that's 1/2 m of rope left!