Essential Skills
            
            Mental Math - recognizing fractions in various contexts
            
                Common Core Connection for Grades 2 and 3
            
            Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares.
 Describe the shares using the words halves, thirds and fourths.
            Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.
 Understand a fraction as a number on the number line.
 Represent
            fractions on a number line diagram.