Pumpkin Pie Fractions Worksheet

About this worksheet

Pumpkin pies cut into halves, thirds, fourths and sixths. In Part A, six pies have some slices filled with orange pumpkin and the rest of the dish empty; children count the orange slices and all the slices and write the fraction. In Part B they color 2/3, 1/4 and 5/6 of three empty pies. Made for second and third graders who are starting fractions as equal parts of a whole. Answer key on page 2. It fits second grade, around ages 7 to 8. Fold a strip of paper into equal parts to check a tricky one.

Answer key at a glance

1) 1 3; 2) 4 6; 3) 1 4; 4) 2 3; 5) 3 4; 6) 1 2 Part B: Color the pie to show the fraction; 7) 2 3; 8) 1 4. The key has 9 answers in all.

Tips for using it

• Shade the parts lightly with a colored pencil to see each fraction.
• Pull a three-page packet per child for the short school week: one math page, one word puzzle and one gratitude page at their level.
• Print the answer keys (page 2) once and clip them to a folder so early finishers can check their own work.
• For a mixed-age family table, give every child the same activity at a different level: the picture word search for the five-year-old, the dinner table word search for the nine-year-old.

Printing tips

Download the PDF and print at 100% (or “fit to page” on A4). Page 1 is the worksheet and page 2 is the answer key with the answers in red; print just page 1 if you want to keep the answers for checking. Free for personal, family and classroom use.