The term "half" is used everywhere. Whether you are asking your mother to refill water in your bottle or you are talking about giving a share of your pocket money to your younger sibling. Half is when you equally divide an amount into two parts. If your mother asks you to divide four cupcakes between you and your sibling, you will keep two and give the remaining two to your sibling; you just divided the stock of cupcakes into a half. In mathematics, half is represented by a fraction 1/2. When it comes to geometry, a line of symmetry divides a shape into two halves. Sometimes, the concepts and meanings behind certain words and terms in mathematics are for sure, very confusing. Mostly because there are so many of them, and probably because there is nobody to give you a proper concept of the term. Well, we are here to help you understand the concept of half. It's fine if you don't know what it means; we can figure it out together! By definition, the word half means to divide something into equal parts of two. This means if you divide a piece of chocolate into two equal parts, you have halved the chocolate. It is easy to understand, take a piece of paper, a pencil, and a ruler. Draw a line in between the paper as such, it is divided into two equal parts. You have halves of papers!

When something is divided equally into two parts or pieces, we refer to each of the pieces as half. When we want to find half of anything, we can simply divide it by two. A marathon running race is roughly 26.2 miles long, therefore a half-marathon race is 13.1 miles long. Here is an interesting fact about the power of half. The half-marathon is more than twice as popular as the marathon, based on the number of participants worldwide. Your pre-k students will use these activity sheets to learn about the bilateral symmetry of given objects. Students will color half of simple pictures.