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Equal Shares in the Art Room

Grade 2 art room practice splitting circles and rectangles into halves, thirds, and fourths, and telling equal shares from unequal ones.

Grade 2MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to2.G.A.3

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1 Common Core standard
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12 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students name one equal share of a circle or rectangle as a half, a third, or a fourth.
Students tell whether a shape is split into equal or unequal shares.
Students describe a whole as two halves, three thirds, or four fourths.

How to use

Give students paper squares, strips, and circles to fold before they start. Let them fold and cut to check their answers to the equal-share problems.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

2.G.A.3

Split circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares and describe them.

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Equal Shares in the Art Room

Cut paper, plates, and clay into halves, thirds, and fourths.

Name the share

Each shape is split into equal shares. Look at the shaded part.

Ana cut a paper plate into equal shares. She colored one share red. What is the red share called?

A. one half
B. one third
C. one fourth

Jamal folded a strip of paper into equal shares. He colored one share blue.

The strip has equal shares. The blue part is one of the strip.

Lily cut a felt circle into 2 equal shares.

The shaded part is one of the circle. The whole circle is halves.

Match each shape to the words that tell about its shaded part.

A. one fourth
B. three thirds (the whole)
C. one half
D. one third

Equal or not equal?

Equal shares are all the same size. Read each problem carefully.

Sort each cut. Does it make equal shares or shares that are not equal?

A circle cut into 4 pieces that are all the same sizeA rectangle cut into 3 pieces: one big piece and two small piecesA square cut from corner to corner into 2 matching trianglesA circle cut into 2 pieces, one much bigger than the otherA rectangle cut into 3 strips that are all the same sizeA rectangle cut into 4 pieces of different sizes

Equal shares	Not equal shares

Tia and Marco each have a square of paper. The squares are the same size. Tia cuts hers from corner to corner into 2 equal triangles. Marco cuts his straight down the middle into 2 equal rectangles. Each of them keeps one piece. Who has more paper?

A. Tia, because her piece is a triangle
B. Marco, because his piece is a rectangle
C. They have the same amount, because each piece is one half of the same size square

Use the word bank to finish each sentence.

Word bank: halves · thirds · fourths

A whole cut into 3 equal shares is cut into .
A whole cut into 4 equal shares is cut into .
A whole cut into 2 equal shares is cut into .

Ms. Patel cut shapes for a class collage. Circle each shape that is cut into thirds.

Art room problems

Read each story. Draw a picture if it helps.

Owen has a rectangle of clay. He cuts it into 3 equal shares and gives 1 share to each of his 3 friends.

Each friend gets one of the clay. The whole rectangle is thirds.

10.

Hana and Leo each have a sheet of paper. The sheets are the same size. Hana cuts hers into halves. Leo cuts his into fourths. Whose pieces are bigger?