Candy+Bar+Fractions

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 * Activity Type**: fractions
 * Grade:** 4
 * Group Size:** any
 * Length:** varies
 * Materials:** Hershey's Chocolate Bar

1. Give each child a Hershey Bar. 2. Tell them not to break apart or eat the bar until you instruct them to do so. 3. Open up candy bar and talk about whole, half, and quarters 4. Ask how many pieces do we have? 5. How would we say or write this as a fraction 6. Now break off the first column of the candy bar. How many pieces do you have? 7. What fraction of the candy bar do you have now? 8. Break off another column, how many pieces do you all altogether now? 9. What fraction of the candy bar is gone? 10. Continue breaking off until all the pieces are together in a pile. 11. What if you had to share the candy with 2 (3,4,5,6)persons? What fraction of the candy would each person get.?



Read the Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar Fractions Book or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
 * Follow-up Activity**

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