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Pizza Starts on the Farm

Pizza crust is made from wheat. Farmers plant tiny

wheat kernels in the ground using a drill. Wheat looks

like fresh new grass when it comes out of the soil. It

grows to about 24 inches high. The farmer harvests

the wheat and hauls it in trucks or wagons to the

country grain elevator. From there it is sold to food

companies. There are a lot of steps to make wheat

Pizza Probability

into flour for pizza dough. After the wheat is shipped

Pretend you are making pizzas and you

to a mill, it is cleaned to remove weeds, stems, and

have pepperoni, sausage, and mush-

other plant material. Then rollers press the kernels to

rooms for toppings. How many different

break them into pieces. Finally, the small wheat pieces

pizzas can you make with these top-

are shaken onto screens to sift out the bran and germ

pings? (None of the pizzas can have the

not used in wheat flour.

same toppings as any of the others.) Fill

in the circles below until you run out of

Fabulous Fractions

pizza topping combinations. The first

Using the round pizza below and a ruler, divide the

one is done for you.

pizza into two halves.

Next, divide the pizza into four fourths.

Finally, divide the pizza into eight eighths so each

slice is one-eighth of the whole pizza.

How many pizzas would you need to give to ev-

eryone in your class one slice of pizza?

How many pizzas would you need to give every-

one in your class two slices of pizza?

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