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Curated OER

To Half or Half Not

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Jump into equivalent fractions using these fun scenarios for mathematicians to solve. First, they use geoboards to find different ways to divide a rectangle in half. Then, an alien from the planet Fractional is after one half of their...
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Curated OER

"Pizza"rama With Fractions!!

For Teachers 3rd
Young mathematicians explore number values by utilizing food as a visual aide. They discuss the differences between halves, fourths, and eighths and how they are visually represented by a pizza. Then create their own pizza in class and...
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Curated OER

Fraction Pizza

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students, with a partner, examine the relationship of fractions to whole numbers through the use of Fraction Pizza software by Panasonic.
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Curated OER

Penny's Pizza

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students develop a list of possible outcomes as a method of finding probability related to a pizza statistics problems. They read the problems together as a class, brainstorm ways to solve the problem, and in partners solve the pizza...
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Lakeshore Learning

Comparing and Ordering Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Math can be satisfying for the mind and the stomach! Incorporate slices of pizza into your fractions lesson with a set of informative resources. After a brief guided lesson on comparing and ordering fractions, young mathematicians...
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Curated OER

Pizza Possibilities

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create and interpret line plots, bar graphs, and circle graphs. The activity assumes mastery of conversions from fraction to decimal to percent, construction of angles, and at least an introduction to graphs displaying data.
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Science Matters

Thermal Energy Flow in Materials

For Teachers 6th Standards
The sun sends the earth 35,000 times the amount of energy required by all of us on the entire planet, every day. The fourth instructional activity in the 10-part series looks at how light energy from the sun transfers into thermal...
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Curated OER

Pizza Fraction Fun

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students solve for fractions using a pizza. In this fraction lesson plan, students listen to a read aloud, decorate pizzas, then cut their pizzas apart to show equivalent fractions. Once their pizzas are cut apart, they share different...
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Curated OER

Pizza Time!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore healthy dietary guidelines. For this dietary guidelines lesson, 5th graders investigate fractional parts of a healthy diet using pizza as a visual aid.
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Curated OER

Pizza Party

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the concept of fractions through use of hands on activity. In this lesson about fractions, students will work together in small groups with a round piece of paper, or pizza, and cut the pizza into pieces. Students will...
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Curated OER

Fraction Fun with Pizza

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete a pizza fraction project. For this pizza fractions lesson, 4th graders use construction paper to make toppings for a pizza and cover the pizza according to fraction exercises. Students put their pizza and...
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Curated OER

Fraction Fun With Food

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students use candy and pizza to identify concepts associated with fractions. They work together in groups to create fractions. They complete a worksheet individually to complete the activity.
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Curated OER

More Pizzas and Things

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students are introduced to the problem by playing a guessing game of "I am a number, which is half of 6 and 6, what am I?" They explain their answers and see if anyone else had an alternate solution checking for reasonableness.
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Curated OER

Who Wants Pizza?

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students practice fraction skills online at the "Want Some Pizza" website. They complete activities via the internet and on square grid paper. They pull down tabs to check their answers.
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Curated OER

Initial Fraction Ideas Lesson 6: Overview

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use fraction circles to observe fractions in smaller parts and to complete charting and word problem activities. In this fraction lesson plan, students complete chart problems, word problems, and fraction comparing problems...
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Curated OER

Play Dough Pizza Party

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students review fractions using a visual display. They receive a can of Play Dough and have to complete a worksheet figuring out how to divide up a pizza for a specified number of guests.
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Curated OER

Giggle, Giggle, Quack Pizza Fractions

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore the concept of multiplication by using pizza. They read an article discussing how math is used everyday. They try to determine how many pizzas they would need to feed the class.
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Curated OER

Fraction Feast!

For Teachers K
Students listen to various books about sharing food or food fractions. Then they discuss their fraction feast, examining the food and deciding how it can be shared to make fractions.
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Curated OER

Funtastic Fractions

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discover fractions by creating models. In this fractions lesson, students read Give Me Half! by Stuart J. Murphy and view a video about what fractions actually represent. Students divide a square piece of paper a certain amount...
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Curated OER

Hello, Fractions!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discover fractions through the use of pattern blocks, literature, website activity and making a fractional pizza.
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PBS

Add, Subtract and Multiply Fractions

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Your future chefs will appreciate this comprehensive lesson where learners practice operations on fractions using pizza and soup analogies. Learners begin with a pizza analogy that requires the learners to multiply a whole...
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Curated OER

Fractions--How Low Can You Go?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars reduce fractons.  In this fractions lesson, students visit a given website and perform directed activities.  They reduce fractions to their lowest terms.  Young scholars complete worksheets containing...
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Curated OER

Initial Fraction Ideas Lesson 21: Overview

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students become familiar with the process of subtracting fractions.  In this subtracting fractions lesson plan, students complete examples and then write a story problem. Students continue to practice while sharing their problems.
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Curated OER

Fractions

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use pattern blocks and fraction identification cards to create and identify fractions. For this fractions lesson plan, 4th graders identify fractions in a pizza, and make fractions with markers.