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Review: Read Clocks and Make Equal Shares

Tell hours and half-hours and partition wholes into halves or fourths.

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1. The short hand points to 8; the long hand points to 12. What time is shown?
Need a hint?
  • Identify the shorter hour hand before reading its position.
  • At an exact hour, a minute hand at twelve means :00.
2. The short hand is halfway from 8 to 9; the long hand points to 6. What time is shown?
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  • At :30 the hour hand is between two numbers.
  • Use the earlier hour; the next hour has not begun.
3. A drawn card is divided into 2 equal shares. What is one share called?
Need a hint?
  • Check equal area, not only the number of pieces.
  • Unequal pieces do not all receive the same fraction name.
4. Two identical square regions are split into two equal shares and four equal shares. Which single share is larger?
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  • Keep both wholes the same size in the model.
  • A larger denominator means smaller equal pieces of the same whole.

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Draw 4:30 and divide a rectangle into four equal strips. Explain both uses of a whole split into parts.

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At 4:30 the minute hand points to 6 and the hour hand is between 4 and 5. Four equal rectangle strips each cover one fourth; together they rebuild the whole.

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