Second Grade Math Worksheets: No. 8
Primary Maths Problems
Singapore Math

Fractions

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Math Worksheet No. 8
Fractions

Mother Crocodile caught a man and cut him into 5 pieces equally for her 5 children. What fraction of the man did her daughter, Sarah Crocodile, get?

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Question 2

Mother Baboon cut a banana pudding into 6 equal slices. She gave 2 slices to Father Baboon and 1 slice to Baby Baboon. What fraction of the pudding did she have left?

Singapore Second Grade Math Worksheets: Question 3

Dr Dorothy is a cannibal. One of her patients died last night and she took his liver home. She baked a delicious liver pie for her hungry family and cut the pie into 8 slices. If she gave 3 slices to Dad, 2 slices to Margaret and 1 slice to Baby Sam, what portion of the liver pie did she eat?

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Question 4

I bought a tub of iguana ice-cream. I ate 3/7 of the ice-cream, gave 2/7 of the ice-cream to my mother and the rest to my father. What fraction of the ice-cream did my father eat?

Singapore Second Grade Math Worksheets: Question 5

Mandy Mutt found a huge dinosaur bone when she was digging in the garden last week. She ate 1/8 of the bone on Monday, 2/8 of the bone on Tuesday and 3/8 of the bone on Wednesday. What fraction of the huge bone was left?

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Question 6

Shana Spider caught a beetle on Monday. She baked a pie with 1/6 of the beetle on Tuesday and roasted 4/6 of the beetle on Tuesday. She gave the rest of the beetle to her best friend Tara Tarantula. What fraction of the beetle did Tara get?

Singapore Second Grade Math Worksheets: Question 7

Elvis Elf made a wonderful rocking horse last month. However, he was not able to sell the rocking horse. As Elvis Elf had no money to buy food, he decided to eat his horse. He ate 2/7 of the horse for lunch and the rest for dinner. What portion of the horse did he eat for dinner?

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Question 8

Maria Mermaid collected some seashells from the beach and made a necklace with 2/8 of the pearls for Neptune, her father. She gave a fraction of the pearls to her baby sister and had 3/8 of the pearls left. What fraction of the pearls did she give her sister?

Singapore Second Grade Math Worksheets: Question 9

Ernest Explorer was lost in Africa. A tribe of cannibals caught him, chopped him up into 8 pieces and cooked him in their large cauldron. If 6 cannibals ate one piece each, what fraction of poor Ernest Explorer was left in the end?

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Question 10

Wally Vampire couldn't find any humans so he caught a wild goose. He sucked 1/6 of the blood of the goose on Monday. He sucked 3/6 of its blood on Tuesday and 1/6 of its blood on Wednesday. What fraction of the goose's blood was left on Wednesday?

Singapore Second Grade Math Worksheets: Question 11

Keith Knight was dumb enough to fight with Marlon Minotaur. Marlon Minotaur killed the crazy knight and cut him into 9 pieces. He gave 3 pieces to his grandmother because humans were good for constipation. He also gave one piece each to Tyra Troll and Desmond Devil because they were orphans. He barbecued the remaining corpse and devoured it. What fraction of Keith Knight did Marlon Minotaur eat?

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Question 12

I bought a juicy salamander pie and shared it equally with my 8 brothers. What portion of the pie did I eat?

Singapore Second Grade Math Worksheets: Question 13

Sally Scientist was studying how long it took a monkey to peel and eat a banana. She politely asked Gabriel Gibbon to be her subject. Gabriel Gibbon peeled the banana in the 1st minute, ate 1/9 of the banana in the 2nd minute, vomited in the 3rd minute because he accidentally bit into a maggot, ate another 2/9 of the banana to catch up for lost time in the 4th minute and speedily finished the rest by the 5th minute because he had to go to the bathroom. What portion of the banana had the gallant Gabriel Gibbon eaten in the 4th minute all in the name of science?

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Question 14

A walrus and a dolphin got married in Alaska in January. They decided to build an igloo to protect their future kids from dangerous polar bears. They built 3/9 of the igloo in February and 4/9 of the igloo in March. If they completed their igloo in April, what fraction of the igloo did they build in April? Now their children can play safely in their house.

Singapore Second Grade Math Worksheets: Question 15

Crazy Carl was terribly dumb at second grade math. A witch doctor told him that if he ground the horn of a rhino, mixed it with milk and drank it, his mind would become as sharp as a horn. He brought his rifle to Africa and shot a hapless white rhino. He gleefully ground the rhino horn into powder and carefully kept it in a bottle. If he drank 2/7 of the powder on Monday and 1/7 of the powder on Tuesday, how much rhino horn powder was left for Wednesday? The bad news is that he still fails his math quizzes.

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Question 16

Mother Tiger made a deer pie yesterday and cut it into 9 slices. She gave her 3 cubs 2 slices each. Father Tiger wolfed down 2 slices. If Mother Tiger ate the remaining pie, what portion of the pie did she eat?

Singapore Second Grade Math Worksheets: Question 17

Shaun Shark tried to bite my grandmother's left foot while she was scuba diving in the Red Sea. My grandmother speared Shaun Shark with her speargun and brought his dead body home. She cut his body into 9 pieces. She made shark curry with 2 pieces and roasted shark with 3 pieces. She threw one piece to Fred, our poodle, and made shark stew with the remaining portion. What fraction of Shaun Shark ended up in the delectable shark stew?

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Question 18

Mother cut a buffalo cake into 8 equal slices. Simon, Sandy, Sheena, Susila and Sara ate the cake. Simon, who was ravenous, gulped down 3 slices of the cake and Sandy ate 2 slices. Sheena, Susila and Sara all ate the same number of slices. What fraction of the cake did Susila eat?

Singapore Second Grade Math Worksheets: Question 19

Sukey Serpent, a proud mother of 4 girls and 2 boys, smelled a rat yesterday. She immediately caught it and made delicious rat stew for her kids. Sukey gave each girl 1/8 of the stew. She gave each boy 2/8 of the stew because they had bigger appetites. What was the total portion of the stew the boys ate?

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Question 20

My grandfather got into a boxing match with my grandmother, the same one who speared the shark. When she punched my grandfather, she broke 2/9 of his dentures. She kicked him in his jaw and broke another 3/9 of his dentures. He totally lost his dignity but what fraction of his dentures was left after she was done with him?

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Singapore Primary 2 Maths Worksheet 8 - Answers

Q1 - 1/5, Q2 - 3/6, Q3 - 2/8, Q4 - 2/7, Q5 - 2/8

Q6 - 1/6, Q7 - 5/7, Q8 - 3/8, Q9 - 2/8, Q10 - 1/6

Q11 - 4/9, Q12 - 1/9, Q13 - 3/9, Q14 - 2/9, Q15 - 4/7

Q16 - 1/9, Q17 - 3/9, Q18 - 1/8, Q19 - 4/8, Q20 - 4/9

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