Number line
Horizontal number lines
Print ten horizontal number lines with your own endpoints, whole-number or fractional steps, and six choices of tick labels.
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Fractions on a number line
Print five fraction number lines with four targets each and a separate key. Choose reading or marking, twelve denominator groups and positive or negative fractions.
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Check the interval, then mark the values labeled A–D or write the value of each plotted point. The letters need not run from left to right.
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Fractional ticks and mixed-number answers use reduced exact notation. On decimal worksheets, thirds are positioned exactly and displayed to three decimal places, so those decimals are rounded descriptions of the points.
Learning objective
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Locate fractions by partitioning a unit into equal parts and connecting equivalent fractions to the same position.
Worked example
Where does 3/4 belong on a line from 0 to 1 divided into four equal parts?
At the third tick after 0.
Each interval is 1/4. Three such intervals reach 3/4, one interval before 1. Equivalent fractions occupy the same location.
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- For a beginner sheet, select only the 2 & 4 group, Positive fractions and Mark mode. This halves-and-quarters practice uses the interval 0 to 1, including endpoint 1 so each row can contain four different targets: 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 and 1.
- The default mixes denominator groups on positive rows from 0 to 1. Negative rows span −1 to 0. These are unit-interval fraction tasks, rather than mixed numbers beyond one. Each row uses one selected denominator group. Groups are shuffled in cycles; selecting more than five does not put every group on a single five-row worksheet.
- Negative mode uses -1 to 0. Group 2 & 4 includes endpoint -1; other targets are proper negative fractions. Compare their distance from zero before comparing numerators.
- Point letters are shuffled rather than ordered by position. Mark mode lists the values without points; read mode shows points and blank values. The separate key completes both.
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