Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- strategies for partitioning shapes into two, three, or four equal shares and reason about these shares.
Skills
Students are able to:
- decompose circles and rectangles into halves, thirds, and fourths.
- communicate the size of pieces using the appropriate fraction terminology.
- recognize that equal shares may be different shapes within the same whole.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- shapes can be equally partitioned into halves, thirds, and fourths.
Vocabulary
- Partition