| Lesson start ideas | Give a creative idea how to begin a lesson |
| Which subject | Mathematics |
| What age group | Year or Grade 1 |
| What topic | Fractions |
| Quantity | 1 |
| Any other preferences |
Welcome to our exciting lesson on fractions! Today, we will be exploring the wonderful world of fractions and how they help us to understand part of a whole.
Let's start by playing a game of pizza fractions! I'll show you a picture of a pizza and you have to tell me how many slices it has, and then we'll figure out what fraction of the pizza each slice represents.
Great job! Now that we understand how to identify and count the parts of a whole, let's learn more about fractions.
A fraction is a way of showing parts of a whole. It is written in the form of a number on top, called the numerator, and a number on the bottom, called the denominator. The denominator tells us how many equal parts the whole has, while the numerator tells us how many parts we are looking at.
For example, if we have a pizza that is divided into 8 equal slices and we eat 2 slices, we can say that we have eaten 2/8 or 1/4 of the pizza.
Awesome job, young mathematicians! Today we learned that fractions are a way to represent parts of a whole. We also learned how to recognize fractions by counting the equal parts of a whole. Keep practicing and exploring fractions in your everyday life!