This requires a free plug-in, Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can find out if you need it by clicking on the PDF link. Students will need scissors to cut teardrop shapes from the worksheet. You may also wish to use geoboards. Typically a straight line cut is used for halving something.
Students have less experience with irregular cuts.
Note that Keisha showed how to test the shapes by placing one piece over the other and inspecting them to determine they are the same size and shape. It is often difficult for students to judge whether irregular shapes are equivalent. Equivalent fractions are the focus in this episode. Multiple representations include whole numbers with a proper fraction, a whole number with a decimal, and geometric representations.