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Pizza Shop Fractions
🍕 Part 1: Pizza Recipe Scaling
1. Mario's Pizza Shop uses this recipe for their classic Margherita pizza base (serves 4 people):
Original Recipe:
• 3/4 cup flour
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 2/3 cup tomato sauce
a) A customer wants to order a pizza for 8 people (double the recipe). Calculate the new ingredient amounts:
b) Another customer wants a smaller pizza for 2 people (half the recipe). Calculate the new ingredient amounts:
c) For a large family order of 12 people (triple the recipe), what amounts would you need?
🧀 Part 2: Pizza Topping Fractions
2. At the pizza shop, they track what fraction of each pizza has different toppings. Circle the correct equivalent fraction:
a) 1/4 of a pizza has pepperoni. This is equivalent to:
2/8
3/12
4/16
All of the above
b) 3/6 of a pizza has mushrooms. This simplifies to:
1/2
1/3
2/4
6/12
3. Which of these fractions are equivalent to 2/3? Check all that apply:
4/6
6/9
8/12
10/15
12/18
🎨 Part 3: Visual Pizza Fractions
4. Draw a circular pizza divided into 8 equal slices. Shade 3/8 of the pizza to show pepperoni coverage:
5. Draw another circular pizza divided into 6 equal slices. Shade 2/6 of the pizza, then write the simplified fraction below:
6. If you have a pizza cut into 12 slices and you eat 4 slices, what fraction of the pizza did you eat? Simplify your answer.
📝 Part 4: Pizza Shop Word Problems
7. The pizza shop sold 24 pizzas today. If 1/3 were vegetarian, 1/4 were pepperoni, and the rest were supreme, how many of each type were sold?
Vegetarian pizzas: _______ pizzas
Pepperoni pizzas: _______ pizzas
Supreme pizzas: _______ pizzas
8. Sarah ordered a pizza and ate 2/8 of it for lunch and 3/8 of it for dinner. What fraction of the pizza did she eat in total? Simplify your answer.
9. The pizza chef needs to make sauce for the day. The recipe calls for 2/3 cup of tomato paste for every 4 pizzas. If they need to make 12 pizzas, how much tomato paste is needed?
🔗 Part 5: Fraction Matching
10. Match each fraction with its equivalent simplified form:
1. 6/8
2. 4/12
3. 9/15
4. 10/20
A. 1/2
B. 3/4
C. 1/3
D. 3/5
🏪 Part 6: Create Your Own Pizza Menu
11. Design a pizza menu for your own pizza shop. Include at least 4 different pizzas with fractional topping descriptions (e.g., "1/2 the pizza has extra cheese, 1/4 has olives"). Show how you would scale one recipe to serve different numbers of people.
12. Reflection: Explain how understanding equivalent fractions helps when working in a pizza shop or restaurant kitchen.
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