Fractions are parts of a whole. In other words, you start with the WHOLE THING. A whole is made of all the parts. For example if you have a pizza that has been sliced into 8 pieces, the whole pizza is 8 pieces. If you were hungry and ate 2 pieces then you ate 2 out of 8 pieces making the fraction or portion you ate 2/8. Play this video game and have some fun.

Since you have done so well at fractions so far, we will continue talking about how fractions and MUSIC relate. Fractions in music often add up to 4. Meaning that the whole is 4 parts. Let us practice using fractions in 4 parts below.