Pizza Portions

My friends and I love pizza. Can you help us share these pizzas equally?

Pies

Grandma found her pie balanced on the scale with two weights and a quarter of a pie. So how heavy was each pie?

Red Balloons, Blue Balloons

Katie and Will have some balloons. Will's balloon burst at exactly the same size as Katie's at the beginning of a puff. How many puffs had Will done before his balloon burst?

Fun Time

Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Why do this problem?

This problem gives practice in calculating with fractions and encourages different ways of representing and recording.

Key questions

What could you draw or write down to help you?

Have you tried working backwards?

What fraction of the total time for the cinema and shopping is the $10$ minutes of shopping?

So how long did they spend in total watching the film and shopping?

Possible extension

Andy's Marbles is a similar problem which might make a good follow-up activity.

Possible support

Fair Feast would be a good problem to try first if children find calculating with fractions difficult.

Multiplication & division. Fractions. Calculating with fractions. Working systematically. Factors and multiples. smartphone. Generalising. Calculating with ratio & proportion.

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