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Sweet Counter release a new primary teaching resource designed to help children with fractions
Sweet Counter release a new primary teaching resource designed to help children with fractions
Leading early years teaching resource company Sweet Counter have recently released a new product designed to help children understand fractions
Kingston,
Surrey,
United Kingdom
(prbd.net)
03/03/2012
Leading early years teaching resource company Sweet Counter have recently released a new product designed to help children understand fractions. Bits of Pizza – Bizza Pizza will be a favourite with all children and teachers when they realise that equivalent fractions can be taught with ease.
Sweet Counter was the first company to produce a resource that taught fractions using Pizzas, Pies and Puds. Fractions had always been displayed as coloured rods that were cut into 2, 3,4,5,6 etc and coloured to show the fraction. Yawn, yawn. What relevance does a wooden or plastic rod have to a child? Pizza however makes all children pay attention.
Flip Flap Fraction tools consist of Pizza, (fifths and tenths) lemon tart (thirds and sixths), cherry ice (eighths and quarters), and a lattice tart designs (quarters and eighths). The vinyl discs have a slit so you can fold a tenth and flip over to see the remainder - nine tenths. It is still going strong today, but Bizza Pizza takes the concept of fractions further, and concentrates on the area of equivalent fractions.
The eight double laminated card pizzas have either 16, 12, or 10 olives on them and thus the ‘fraction families’ of sixteenth, eighth, quarters and halves, or fifths and tenths, or twelfths, sixths and thirds can be seen. The crux of the set is that the pizzas are double sided and the equivalent fraction can be seen on the reverse side.
The set is designed so the pieces can be cut out and arranged to show the equivalent fraction. Cut out two of the sixteenths, turn over and you will see an eighth. Cut out the fifth, turn over and you will see the two tenths. The double laminated surface means that pieces can be written on with write on and wipe off pens and also indelible pen, allowing the two fifths to be seen at a glance and identified with ease.
This set displays the all important teaching point - the bigger the fractions number the smaller the piece.
Bizza Pizza also encourages accurate cutting, as again the all important message with fractions is - the pieces must be of equal size. Every parent has at one time cut an apple etc. and asked if they want the big half?
Then there is the third. This word ‘third’ I’ve ‘heard’, means after second and before fourth? Aghhh! Every teacher has at some time seen the glazed eyes of confused children who do not understand this important concept. ‘You are only dealing with one, and bits of that one cut up’ they should stress. Bizza Pizza visualises this for child and teacher. It is adaptable and can form displays, games, and interest for those poor teachers and children facing ‘fraction fortnight’.
This new teaching resource includes three sets of six pizzas and a photocopiable booklet.
Sweet Counter
Christine Mayo
Kingston, Surrey, KT2 7ZW
0208 549 2132
sales@sweetcounter.co.uk
www.sweetcounter.co.uk
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