Mandarin Maths

Fabulous Fractions!

Today Room 5 used mandarins to explore the terms and symbols - whole, halves and quarters.

We each peeled a mandarin and then discussed what it meant to divide our mandarins in half.

We then divided our mandarins into segments and counted the pieces. We shared who had an EVEN number of segments and who had an ODD number of segments.

After dividing our mandarins into halves we discussed quarters. We divided our tissues into 4 quarters and shared our mandarin segments evenly into the 4 quarters. Some of us had extra segments left over!

We LOVED our mandarin maths. We really enjoyed eating the mandarins after we had finished our maths. Thank you to everyone who brought mandarins to share today!