🍕 Helping with Fractions
Everything you need to help — without doing it for them.
🧭 Simple explanation (for you)
A fraction is part of a whole. Cut a pizza into 4 equal parts: each is one quarter (1/4). Two parts are 2/4 — the same as one half. Equal parts are the key.
❓ Questions to ask
- “How many equal parts?”
- “What is one part called?”
- “What is half of that?”
- “Can you show it with food?”
💡 Hints (not answers)
- Use real food cut into equal parts
- Draw the whole and shade parts
- Compare: which is bigger, 1/2 or 1/4?
- Connect to division (half = ÷2)
🏡 Practice activity
Pizza fractions: cut, name, compare and eat the quarters.
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