You and your friends are sharing a pizza. It has 8 slices. If you ate 1/2 of the pizza, how much did you eat? How about if you ate 1/4 of the pizza? 1/8?
LEARNING TARGET
I can identify the parts of a fraction.
I can explain what a fraction represents.
I DO
Does anyone already know what a fraction is? What iT represents? What are its parts?
Let's use it to do some examples:
Write the fraction, and write how to say the fraction:
At Northfield, there are 55 students. 12 of them are Star-Splitters. What fraction of students are Star-Splitters? What fraction are in Studium?
Split this shape into 4 equal parts and label each part.