Not the Same Half by Lixin Luo 1 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. 3 I was so excited. I volunteered to halve them. What? Halve them? 4 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 5 They are not equal! They are not halves. huh? 6 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 7 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. 8 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 9 Ok, I can half, oh, no, I meant halve. I can help to make sure you cut the watermelons in the middle. 10