Teaching Fractions
Make sure to include teaching, talk and examples of fractions in multiple contexts, not only chopping up a pizza. Fractions of shapes, of a number of items, of a quantity like litres, of numbers. This helps them understand fractions as division, and as parts of a whole/a group/a quantity/a number.
If you fold a square or circle in half you can open it up and show that the total is the same but there are 2 (equal) parts. Fold again to demonstrate quarters etc. You can use counters and divide them into 2 groups to show that half is the same as divided by 2. Then halve each group again to show that 1/2 is the same as 2/4 and that quarters is dividing the total into 4 equal groups - the same as dividing the number of counters by 4.
