Food Fractions for First Grade Math

Video Transcript

"About this time you can start introduce the concept of fractions. Now to start off by telling them that we were taking the number 1 and building up from there to bigger and bigger numbers. Now we are going to do something different. We are going to take the number 1 which we call a whole 1 whole thing and we are going to break it into smaller pieces. Those are called fractions. Once they have that idea you can over and show them the way that we write a fraction is we put one number over a other number. What do these numbers stand for? The bottom number called denominator stands for all the parts that we cut up the whole into. Remember teach them that it is even parts. You can even draw some places where the parts are not even and say that is a real fraction and now it is not. Each part is even, all the parts are the same size; we divide the whole into 2 parts in this case. The top number - the numerator - is how many of those parts you would choose. So numerator, denominator. After they learn that they can start to work with some pictures and some different concepts to work on their fractions."