## Sort the fractions in order from smallest to largest.

### Click on the red fractions in order from smallest to largest.

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#### Cheese and Onion Pies

Arrange the fractions in order from smallest to largest.

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#### Vinculum

Find fractions larger than the previous fraction but less than one.

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Level 1 - Fractions represented as pie charts

Level 2 - Tenths represented as a grid of squares

Level 3 - Decimal fractions some with hundredths

Level 4 - Twelfths represented as a grid of squares

Level 5 - Vulgar fractions simplified twelfths

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## Example

Order these fractions from smallest to largest

$$\frac{3}{4} , \frac{7}{8} , \frac{1}{2} , \frac{1}{4} , \frac{3}{8}$$

Method 1: Write each of the fractions with a common denominator. The lowest common multiple of the five denominators is 8 so the five fractions become:

$$\frac{6}{8} , \frac{7}{8} , \frac{4}{8} , \frac{2}{8} , \frac{3}{8}$$

It is now easy to order the fractions in order of their denominators:

$$\frac{2}{8} , \frac{3}{8} , \frac{4}{8} , \frac{6}{8} , \frac{7}{8}$$

Now write each of these fractions in the way they were written in the question:

$$\bbox[yellow,5px,border:2px solid red]{ \frac{1}{4} ,\quad \frac{3}{8} ,\quad \frac{1}{2} ,\quad \frac{3}{4} ,\quad \frac{7}{8} }$$

Method 2: Convert each of the fractions to decimals (to three decimal places for this example) by dividing the numerators by the denominators:

$$\require{enclose} \begin{array}{r} 0.750 \\[-3pt] 4 \enclose{longdiv}{3.000} \\[-3pt] \end{array} , \require{enclose} \begin{array}{r} 0.875 \\[-3pt] 8 \enclose{longdiv}{7.000} \\[-3pt] \end{array} , \require{enclose} \begin{array}{r} 0.500 \\[-3pt] 2 \enclose{longdiv}{1.000} \\[-3pt] \end{array} , \require{enclose} \begin{array}{r} 0.250 \\[-3pt] 4 \enclose{longdiv}{1.000} \\[-3pt] \end{array} , \require{enclose} \begin{array}{r} 0.375 \\[-3pt] 8 \enclose{longdiv}{3.000} \\[-3pt] \end{array}$$

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