pizza

Everyday

A pizza is a flat round bread baked with tomato, cheese and other toppings on top. It comes from Italy. tree →

In the lessons

a thing counted and bought, and a whole cut into equal slices; often used for fractions and sharing; in everyday life: pizza night, ordering pizza, toppings like ham, mushrooms or pineapple; in maths: a pizza drawn as a circle split into equal parts shows fractions

Examples

• A pizza is cut into 8 slices. tree →
• Tom ate 3 slices of the pizza. tree →
• They ordered 4 pizzas for 12 children. tree →
• Each pizza costs 9 dollars. tree →
• We had pizza for dinner on Friday. tree →
• What toppings do you like on your pizza? tree →
• If you eat 2 of 8 slices, you eat a quarter of the pizza. tree →
• Pizza comes from Italy. tree →

Note

Often a whole split into equal parts: the number of slices tells the denominator. Trap: count whole pizzas and slices separately; 2 pizzas of 8 slices make 16 slices. Trap: half of a big pizza is more than half of a small one. Pronounced «PEET-sa».