Shapes and Equal Shares Lesson Plans

Ready, set, fractions! In this hands-on lesson, your students will familiarize themselves with common fractions using concrete materials to practise splitting items into halves, thirds, and quarters.

Where's the other half? In this lesson, young mathematicians learn the relationship between halves and symmetry through a fun scavenger hunt. Your students will have a blast figuring out what makes a shape symmetrical.

Students will use their hands to mold clay into shapes, then divide those shapes into equal and unequal quarters.

Help your students find their fraction families with this lesson that sends them searching for their equal fraction pieces!

Yummy fractions! This lesson will introduce fractions to your students and help them identify and make fractions of their own.

It’s pizza time! Students will be introduced to the concept of partitioning shapes to create fractions that demonstrate halves, fourths, and eighths. This lesson is the first of two lessons that address year three fraction concepts.

Who wouldn't want to split a birthday cake with their best friend? In this lesson, students will practise dividing circles and rectangles into halves as they develop an understanding of equal shares.

Provide students with an opportunity to identify the wholes that are correctly divided into halves, thirds, and fourths (equal shares). Use this activity alone as a support lesson or alongside Cookie Fractions Fun.

This tasty lesson will teach second graders about fractions using cookies.

Everyone loves pizza! Introduce the concept of fractions as equal shares in a familiar context. Use alone or with **Halves as Equal Shares.**

Slice those pieces and mix it up! In this lesson that follows “Slice It Up! Part One,” students will begin recognizing different ways to create equal shares in whole shapes, creating a fraction poster by the end of the lesson.