standard_description: Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.
problem_activity: Problem 1
Ms. Macklin puts thirty-two pencils into 4 pencil jars. She puts an equal number into each jar.
a.   How many pencils are in each pencil jar?
b.   How many pencils are in 3 pencil jars?
Problem 2
Mr. Bader has 5 pans of brownies, each of which he cuts into 6 pieces. He then puts an equal number of brownie slices onto 3 plates. How many brownie pieces are on each plate?


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