{"id":4462,"date":"2025-12-22T19:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/?page_id=4462"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:28:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:28:37","slug":"4462-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/resources-for-teacher-growth-and-support\/learn-about-percents\/part-of-the-whole\/4462-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Part of the Whole &#8211; Some Explanations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/12\/half-or-not_orig-1024x619.jpg\" alt=\"A) Circle divided into 7 equal parts. Three are shaded.\nB) Glass of water, half full, half empty\nC) A cake cut into 20 pieces. Three pieces are missing.\nD) A charging battery icon with one bar out of four showing.\nE) A cupcake with a bite taken out\nF) Circle divided into 10 equal parts, 5 are shaded.\" class=\"wp-image-4445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/12\/half-or-not_orig-1024x619.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/12\/half-or-not_orig-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/12\/half-or-not_orig-768x464.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/12\/half-or-not_orig.jpg 1076w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some possible explanations about which of the pictures above show one-half and which do not.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The pictures in the set above that show one-half&nbsp;are pictures B and F. In picture B, the water takes up half&nbsp;of the glass. In picture F, half&nbsp;of the slices are colored red.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In picture A, only 3 slices are colored orange, but 4 are not. This means that&nbsp;<em>less than<\/em>&nbsp;half of the slices are colored orange.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In picture C, less than half&nbsp;of the dessert has been eaten and more than half&nbsp;of it is left. It looks like there were 20 pieces to start with. Half of that would be ten pieces, but there are 17 pieces left, so that is more than half.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In picture D, the battery is less than half&nbsp;full. The red part reaches less than halfway up the battery.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In picture E, there is more than half&nbsp;of the cookie remaining. The person who took a bite out of it has eaten less than half of it because the part they ate is smaller than the part that is left.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some possible explanations about which of the pictures above show one-half and which do not.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pictures in the set above that show one-half&nbsp;are pictures B and F. In picture B, the water takes up half&nbsp;of the glass. In picture F, half&nbsp;of the slices are colored red.<\/p>\n<p>In picture A, only 3 slices are colored orange, but 4 are not. This means that&nbsp;<em>less than<\/em>&nbsp;half of the slices are colored orange.&nbsp;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/resources-for-teacher-growth-and-support\/learn-about-percents\/part-of-the-whole\/4462-2\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":4432,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"175,3475,1201,1614,3082,3200","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4462","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4825,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4462\/revisions\/4825"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}