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Write the fraction the shaded part shows.
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Fractions of shapes worksheets
A fraction is easiest to meet as a picture: a shape cut into equal parts with some of them shaded. These free printable worksheets show a circle, a bar, or a many-sided shape divided into equal pieces and ask a child to write the fraction that is colored in.
If they get stuck
Fractions of shapes
The answer key prints on a separate page.
What's on this sheet
Every shape is split into equal parts, because that is the whole idea of a fraction: the bottom number counts how many equal pieces the whole was cut into, and the top number counts how many are shaded. A child reads it straight off the picture — count the shaded parts for the numerator, count all the parts for the denominator. Three shapes keep it fresh: a pie-cut circle, a bar of equal strips, and a regular polygon whose sides match its parts, so a triangle shows thirds and a hexagon shows sixths.
Why this sheet works
The answer is left exactly as the picture shows it and is never simplified — two of six shaded is written two sixths, not one third — because the point here is counting parts, not reducing them. Simplifying comes later, once naming a fraction is automatic, and keeping the fraction unreduced means the picture and the answer always agree part for part.
How this one works
One question from a sheet like this one, worked a step at a time — with a sentence saying what just happened and why.
Fractions of shapes, step by step