Cluster 7: Partitioning and Telling Time to the Half Hour

This cluster begins with experiences in partitioning circles and rectangles into halves and fourths. As students’ partition rectangles and circles into two and four shares, they should describe the shares they’ve created using the language of ‘halves’, ‘half of’, ‘fourth’ and ‘fourth of’. It is not the expectation that fractions should be written formally at this time. Students also apply their understanding of partitioning to learn to tell time to the hour and half hour in this cluster. (See About this Cluster and the Unpacking Document below for more details on this cluster.)