Luo(2022) Not The Same Half

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by  Lixin Luo

Not the Same Half
by Lixin Luo
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To my sisters
Who enjoy sharing
Creative Commons license, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Copyright © 2022 by Lixin Luo
Mushroom head design by Abram Hindle
For collaboration please write to [email protected]
Made in Edmonton, AB, Canada
Watermelon is my favorite summer
food. The other day, my parents
brought two watermelons home.
One is bigger than the other.
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I was so excited.
I volunteered to halve them.
What? Halve them?
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Oh, I meant I am going to cut each
of them in two equal parts.
I can help. I know how to do that.
[Younger Bro breaks a cracker]
There, I got two halves!
One Whole
cut in two
Two Parts
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They are not equal!
They are not halves.
huh?
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To halve something, we need to cut it in
two EQUAL parts.
Like last time I broke the special flavor
chocolate bar carefully in the middle, so
that you and I would each get a fair share.
One Whole
cut in two unequally cut in two equally
Two unequal parts Two equal parts
Two Halve-Nots Two Halves
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You didn’t want to but mom told you to.
She said “cut it in half”. That was loud.
Uh… whatever, that’s called halving too.
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My teacher Ms. L Squared says that
when we divide something into two
equal parts, we get two halves.
Each part is called a “half”.
1 One Whole
Divided by 2
𝟏 𝟏 Two Equal Parts
𝟐 𝟐
One Half One Half Two Halves
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Ok, I can half, oh, no, I meant halve.
I can help to make sure you cut the
watermelons in the middle.
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