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2. Florida made 15 cupcakes. She put chocolate flakes on of them and gems on
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1 of them. How many cakes were without gems and flakes?
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3. Arpita bought 2 of a kilogram of carrots and 1 of a kilogram of cucumber. How
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much more did carrots weigh than cucumber?
4. Solve the following:
13 4 2 6 2 1 14 8 3
(a) – + (b) + – (c) – +
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GROUP ACTIVITY

To learn comparison of fractions using fraction strips

Things We Need: White sheets of paper, a ruler, a pencil, a pair of scissors and crayons
How To Do:

1. Take a sheet of paper and cut it into 5 strips of equal width
(keep the width of each strip equal to the width of a ruler).

2. Colour the strips in different colours—red, yellow, green,
orange and blue.

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3. Write 1 on the red strip and paste it on another sheet of
paper.

4. Fold the yellow strip into two halves. Unfold it and draw a 1 1
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line on the crease formed. Write on both the halves. 2 2
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