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Preschool quaters
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Explore bread slices and using role play you can chat about Math!
A whole, a half, a quater - 1, 2, 4 ..
Use child led and initiated activities to open up these opportunities and introduce fractions.
Download the activity pdf
Whole, half and quater are all words that can be used in general conversation and help understanding of segmentation, partition, assignation and sharing.
Number, quantity and problem solving .. if you cut a whole piece of bread into 4 pieces how can they all fit back together again ..
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 Use the sheets provided in the download pdf to cut your own slices of bread and toast from.
Use materials that vary in texture, thickness, depth and contour.
Light browns, speckled and white.
Use cutting tools, tearing, ripping or folding as techniques to divide and share out the role play slices. |
For more information ..
 Fraction from google images
Familiar items for segmentation:
-- Pizza
-- Oranges - fruit and chocolate :-)
-- Cake
-- Sandwiches
A core and central connecting points.
For parent evenings and workshop play use this resource to examine the forward and reverse processes that cutting quaters, halves and reassembling them has ..
Ask 'To take apart and put back together follows what specific steps .. how does this allow children to find out about their environment.
What other processes could follow this same pattern ..
Reverse engineering from wikipedia
How children learn using this approach.
Toast!
More resource ideas from Magical Mammoth - looking at personal, social, emotional and well being play with bread .. |
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