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Overview
Overview
Your student will be learning:
- how to divide or split 2-D shapes into two or four equal parts and describe those parts using words. We are not using the number form for fractions in first grade yet.
Example:
This circle has two equal parts.
It is cut into 2 halves.
One out of two equal parts are shaded.
Example:
This square is divided or split into four equal parts.
It is cut into fourths or quarters. Two out of four equal parts are shaded.
One half of the square is shaded or colored in.
Resources
Resources
- Videos
- Divide into Halves, Fourths. In this Khan Academy video, the teacher models how to partition or divide shapes into two and four equal parts.
- Stage 1 Math - Wholes, Halves and Quarters. This animated video models how to divide items and shapes into halves, fourths, and quarters.
- Websites
- Fractions Splat. Select the first two games in Fraction Splat to practice identifying halves, fourths, and equal parts.
- Books
- A Fraction’s Goal- Parts of a Whole by Brian P. Cleary. This story demonstrate how fractions work by splitting whole objects into parts and using academic and content vocabulary throughout a catchy rhyme.
- Give Me Half by Stuart J. Murphy. Two siblings split a yummy lunch and discover that using fractions can be messy. Online read aloud.
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