This task is from Tools4NCTeachers. Students use pattern blocks to explore the fractional value of each type of block. This is remixable.

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Solve the following problems using pattern blocks.

1.     If a yellow hexagon is one whole, which block represents ½?  Which block represents 1/3?  Which blocks represent 2/3?

2.     If a red trapezoid is one whole, which block represents 1/3?  Which block represents 2/3?

3.     If a blue rhombus is one whole, which block represents ½?

4.     If a blue rhombus is ½ of a whole, what would one whole look like?

5.     Find one half of a hexagon and one half of a blue rhombus. Write a sentence to explain why they don’t make one whole altogether.

6.     If a green triangle is 1/3 of a whole, what would one whole look like?  How many of these wholes could you make with 3 hexagons?