Slice a Fraction
Mimi Werna
Havilah Werna

I am an invisible narrator.

I will talk to you about pizzas and fractions here, but you won't see me.

Do you see the image above? It is a whole pizza. In fractions, it would be 1/1.

1

Pizza is an Italian word.

If you slice your pizza from top to bottom, you will get two equal halves.

In fractions, it would be 1/2.

2

Here, I have my pizza divided into 3 unequal parts.

I sliced one half of my pizza into equal twos and left the other half alone.

Who will take the large piece?

3

Did you know that pizza is pronounced "peetza" or "pittsa?" I made a quadrant with my pizza!

A quadrant is each of four quarters of a circle. In fractions, this would be 1/4.

4

My pizza is divided into 3 equal parts and two equal parts to make 5 parts. Did you know that in the Italian language, /tts/ sound is written as /zz/?

Do you have a sound in your home language, that behaves like the Italian /tts/ sound?

5

For my 6th pizza, I have divided it into 2 equal parts and 4 equal parts. In total, I have 6 parts. Two quarters make the larger parts.

Can you divide the pizza into 6 equal parts and make a 1/6 fraction?

6

My 7th pizza has 3 quarters divided into 3 equal parts and one quarter left alone.

It means that I have 6 equal parts and one quarter. Can I divide this pizza into 7 equal parts to make 1/7 fraction?

7

My 8th pizza has a quadrant further divided into 4 equal parts. How many are they?

While you take some time to figure out what I look like and how to make more, equal, or unequal slices of pizza from a whole one, I will be here munching.

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Slice a Fraction
Author - Mimi Werna
Illustration - Havilah Werna
Language - English
Level - First paragraphs