Students can tell what they think are the advantages and disadvantages of a particular technique. Have students dictate a class language-experience story about how this information might be helpful to them in the future. Students can use a variety of materials with which to represent the equal parts, e.g. candy bars, bags of candies, fruit. Students can bring something from home that shows two equal parts, three equal parts, or four equal parts. Students can make a symmetrical picture and relate it to making two equal parts.
Students can make a picture that shows three equal parts or four equal parts.
Students can take a nature walk and collect various types of wildflowers that can be used to show two, three, or four equal parts.