Fractions: Pizza Slices
One pizza, four slices: halves, quarters and adding fractions with pictures.
โฑ๏ธ Micro Plan โ 4 short parts ยท about 20 min in total
- 1What Is It?5 min
- 2See It with Pictures5 min
- 3Practice5 min
- 4Quiz Time5 min
๐ฏ Learning objectives
After completing this lesson, the child should be able to:
- Understand what a fraction is
- Read fractions like 1/4 and 3/8
- Add fractions with the same denominator
Cut a pizza and you have made fractions! They are just parts of a whole โ and they are delicious.
Meet the fraction
Cut a pizza into 4 equal slices. Each slice is 1/4 โ one part of four.
- The top number counts the parts you have. ๐๐ = 2 slices.
- The bottom number tells how many parts make the whole. A 4-slice pizza โ bottom is 4.
So 2 slices is 2/4 โ which is the same as 1/2, half the pizza!
Meet the family
- 1/2 โ one half
- 1/3 โ one third
- 1/4 โ one quarter
- 3/4 โ three quarters
Adding with the same slices
Same bottom numbers? Just add the tops:
1/4 + 2/4 = 3/4
Practice with pictures
Fractions in real life
Half an hour, a quarter of a year, three-quarters of the way homeโฆ fractions are everywhere!