A Pizza the Fraction in Maths

Year 3 has been getting to grips with the tricky concept of fractions with the help of pizza. Pupils were given a blank pizza box and tasked to create their own pizza, which could be drawn or made out of different materials and then divided into at least six equal pieces. Each pizza had to represent at least four different fractions using toppings, for example, the pizza is 1/2 cheese, 2/3rds salami or 1/8th olives. They also had to write some word problems for their peers to solve.

Our pupils showed great creativity in creating their pizzas, with some fantastic names given to their finished designs. In class, children then swapped pizzas with their peers, highlighting easy and difficult questions, and explaining why they had made these choices.

Having worked so hard in class, it was a fitting reward for pupils to be treated to a slice of real pizza at break time!