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Fractions: Dividing in Half with Pizza Craft

1st Grade • Lesson Plan Bundle
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Quick Facts

Subject: Geometry, Math

Type: Lesson Plan Bundle

Skills:

  • Collaborate, use the "language" of math by discussing and playing with the "why" of fractions... split a whole into equal parts, identify which wholes are equally split in half, draw lines to divide shapes in half, shade ½ of an object.
  • Demonstrate their understanding by drawing shapes and dividing and decomposing them into equal parts

Materials Needed:

  • Pencil & crayons/colored pencils
  • Scissors (1 for teacher)
  • Glue
  • Large construction paper for background of craft (1 per student)
  • Document camera or whiteboard

Printable Resources:

  • “Exit Slips” (as an optional assessment component, 1 per student)
  • “Cut in Half” (1 per student, and 1 for display)
  • “Color Half” (1 per student, and 1 for display)
  • “I Can Show 1/2!” (1 per student, and 1 for display)
  • “Pizza Craft: Dividing in Half” (1 per student and 1 for display)
  • “Fraction Poster” (1 for display)
  • “Sharing a Pizza” printable  (1 for display)

CCSS: 1.G.A.3

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

Practice the academic language of math and have some fun teaching fractions to your 1st graders with bundle of 2 lessons.  With multiple opportunities to draw and discuss the “why” of fractions, your students will:

  • Segment 1: collaborate, use the “language” of math by discussing and playing with the “why” of fractions… split a whole into equal parts, identify which wholes are equally split in half, draw lines to divide shapes in half, shade ½ of an object.
  • Segment 2: demonstrate their understanding by drawing shapes and dividing and decomposing them into equal parts

These lessons can be taught over the span of a half day or you can use the lessons independently, broken up over several days.