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2 Whole Numbers
Sharing A Birthday Cake

10 Measurement
How Much Is Lost?

18 Fractions
Triangular Pizzas

25 Smart Mathematicians Worksheet

33 Measurement
Master Snail Climbs Up The Well

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 41 Geometry
Triangles On A Fish

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 Triangular
Fractions

Pizzas
Hey!

Wake up, Plop!

Brother Sam!

Get up quickly!
I’m hungry.

A cake is cut into 6 equal pieces with a piece being

eaten. The fraction of the cake that is eaten will
one piece
be = 1 .
six pieces 6

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 Please don’t bother me. Just Mum and Dad have gone out.
go and ask Mum to prepare
your breakfast.

What? Here, they left

this note for you.

It’s almost lunch time

and I’m starving.
Dear Sam,
We are going out. Please
take care of your sister.
I’ve prepared some
breakfast in the kitchen
and left some money
for your lunch.
Love,
Dad and Mum

If a square is cut into two equal parts, it can be written as 2 .

2
If a square is cut into four equal parts, it can be written as 4 .
4
We can conclude that one is equal to 2 and .4
2 4
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 How can you be hungry when
you ate my share of the
breakfast while I was asleep?
I’d like to have fried
chicken!

Brother Sam, I have

That’s a very large pizza never seen a triangular
and it’s triangular! pizza before.
EXTRA
LARGE!!

A round pizza will become Since the pizza is so

triangular after we cut it large, why don’t we
into equal pieces. What’s have pizza for lunch,
so unusual about it? Brother Sam?

The right way to read fractions:

First read the number above the line, then the number under the line.
Example: 2 should be read as two over nine.
9

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 Since you bought two
pizzas, each of us
will have one pizza.
Just now you were
clamouring for fried
chicken and now you
want to have pizza.

Hey,
Mila!

Hello Sam,
how are Where did
you? you go?

4 Numerator

5 Denominator

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 I just came back from my We’re out buying lunch. My parents
basketball club meeting. have gone out. Why don’t you come
What about you? over to my house and try this pizza
from the new pizza stand.

Aren’t we supposed You are such a

to have one whole greedy girl! How
pizza each? can we each finish
such an extra
large pizza?

Comparing fractions:
Comparing fractions with the same denominator, the bigger the numerator,
the bigger the value of the fraction.
Comparing fractions with the same numerator, the bigger the denominator,
the smaller the value of the fraction.
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 Oh my, what a huge
triangular pizza!

Actually it’s
an equilateral
triangular pizza.
How shall we divide the two pizzas
equally among the three of us?

I think I know how to divide the

two pizzas into 3 equal portions.

It won’t be fair
if we just divide
the pizzas into
three portions.

When a whole is divided equally it means all

the parts that are divided must be the same.

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Readers, do you know how to divide the two pizzas into equal pieces to
share among the three of them? How many pieces of pizza will each of
them get as a fraction?

An equilateral triangle is a triangle with 3 equal sides.

1 2

When a triangle is divided into 3 equal parts like this, all the three
parts are equal in size.
When an extra large pizza is divided into three equal parts, each
of them will get a piece or 1 of the pizza.
3
So when two extra large pizzas are divided there will be 6 equal
pieces. So each person will get two pieces of the pizza,
or 1 + 1 = 2 .
3 3 3

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