Imagine one big pizza shared fairly between the ten of us sitting at a table. Everyone gets exactly the same amount, with nothing left over.

How much of the whole pizza does each person get? And if everyone put their slice back together, how much pizza would we have again?

Watch the fraction strips. The top strip is one whole; below it the whole is cut into equal parts. Watch how the smaller parts line up along the whole, and think about which parts are bigger and why.

Today we explore tenths on the strips together. We will shade some tenths and read each one aloud as a fraction. As we shade, watch how close we are getting to one whole strip.

Today we work through these together on the strips: shade three tenths, then shade seven tenths, then shade exactly half as a reference point, and finally the tricky one — shade more than half but less than seven tenths.

What we learned today

• Ten tenths make one whole, just like ten units make one ten.
• The bottom number of a fraction tells how many equal parts; the top number tells how many we have.
• More parts means smaller parts.