Exit Slip: Equal Shares is sized for the last five minutes of a lesson. Students tick the shape showing 2 equal shares, read a rectangle split into four equal columns and name the shares, draw straight lines to partition blank shapes, and finish by deciding whether one half or one fourth of the same pizza is smaller. Four numbered items, one standard, quick to mark.
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“Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, fourths, and quarters, and use the phrases half of, fourth of, and quarter of. Describe the whole as two of, or four of the shares. Understand for these examples that decomposing into more equal shares creates smaller shares.”
All four items live inside this standard, from naming fourths on the partitioned rectangle to the closing halves-versus-fourths size comparison.
Shape choices sit side by side; the correct tick is Shape A, the circle split evenly down the middle.
A rectangle partitioned into four equal columns. Part a asks how many equal shares there are, and part b offers half or fourth as the name.
Blank outlined shapes with instructions to draw straight lines, starting with a circle to split into 2 equal shares (halves).
One tick decides it: one half of a pizza or one fourth of the same pizza. The fourth is smaller.
True exit slip
Hand it out with five minutes left and collect at the door. Item 4 sorts the room into secure and not-yet in one glance.
Next-day regroup
Pull everyone who drew unequal halves in item 3 and re-partition with fold lines before moving on.
Progress evidence
Date it and file it. Four short items per student is enough to evidence the equal-shares objective in progress notes.
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