Review fractions with your child with this fun food activity.

What you'll need:

• A book about fractions
• A pizza or tortilla
• A knife to cut the food (optional)
• Food toppings (optional)

Here's How To Do It Read a book about fractions such as Eating Fractions by Bruce Mcmillan, Ed Emberley's Picture Pie: A Circle Drawing Book by Ed Emberley, Fraction Action by Loreen Leedy, Give Me Half by Stuart J. Murphy or Hershey's Fractions by Jerry Pallotta.

Then take a tortilla or pizza and have your child show you one-quarter, one-half and three-quarters either by breaking it apart or cutting or decorating the food with toppings. For example, you could have your child add pizza sauce to one-quarter, then half, then three-quarters, then the whole pizza. Then add fractional amounts of cheese and other toppings.

Nicola Salvatico was Pennsylvania's Teacher of the Year in 2005. She has taught both first and third grade.

Updated August 2007