Fun fraction game ideas

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This fun game works as an excellent introduction to developing an understanding of fractions. Your students will need to use their mental math skills to identify different basic fractions and eventually win the game.

Try it here: Math Geek Mama. It's getting hot in here! In this game, your students can practice their knowledge of fractions by matching the correct fraction of foods for smores. Adjust this game for different levels, from proper fractions to those that are more challenging. Play it now: The Curriculum Corner.

Another fast-paced unique fractions game, this time involving the classic game Battleships - but with a twist!

Your students will need to use their fraction skills to multiply unit fractions and attack their partner's ships. You can play it digitally or on paper. Check it out: Teachers Pay Teachers. This exciting game combines a collection of fractions skills.

Your kids will be able to practice fractions by grabbing the plate with the correct fraction when the music stops. Try adding in some harder plates, like decimals to fractions, to challenge your advanced students. They will love it! Read more: E is for Explorer. This one is great for a review at the end of a fractions unit. Your students will love using everything they have learned about fractions, including operations and simplifying fractions, to hit their mark.

Check it out: Capturing Classroom Ideas. One of the best parts of this game is that you can easily print it out and create an offline version, making it a valuable teaching tool. Your kids will test their ability to identify equivalent fraction quantities, and you can challenge them to convert fractions into decimals, too. See it here: Twinkl. This game will really show off your creativity with fraction games. It will test your students' skills with simplifying fractions to help hold on to the most property.

They'll need to understand how to change fractions and work together to design the monopoly board. Read more: Mathnspire. This game involves playing basketball to understand fractions. Students shoot a mini-basketball into a mini hoop and record their goals and misses. You can customize it as you please to include more basic fraction identification or more complex fraction equivalents.

Check it out: Jennifer Findley. This game is so much fun! Your students will need to understand fraction concepts to place them in the right slot to make fractions.

You can make some printable fraction cards, and the first person to build that fraction wins. Learn more: Brown Bag Teacher. This is a classic activity like the card game UNO. Students make a whole with the cards in their hands. They need to collect four wholes before they can grab a spoon. The last person without a spoon is out. We all know that hands-on instruction is the way to go for teaching math concepts.

Teaching the way to solve the problem has its place, but understanding why those steps works are just important…and these equivalent fraction activities will help you teach this concept.

Kids love food, and they understand food. When beginning your fraction unit why not pull out a Hershey bar or an orange. It is a great way to not only teach what a fraction is, but also to introduce an equivalent fraction by having them share the food.

A simple way to have students use fractional models to figure out equivalent fractions. Students take a model given and divide it up into equal parts. By the time they have worked through the first model they have found four equivalent fractions. This is very similar to the first interactive notebook, but this time instead of fractional models you get number lines. I love giving children as many ways to see a concept as I can. You never know which way will make the light go off!!!!

Again students need to see many different representations of fractions and how they are equivalent. Using Fraction Tiles the students work to figure out which fractions are equivalent. That is the best type of learning. Number lines are a great way to build fraction sense, and they are also a fun way to teach equivalent fraction. While they are creating their number lines they are working on what numerators are, what denominators are, finding the LCM, and so much more.

Pattern blocks are another great way to explore and learn about equivalent fractions. These task cards are a great place to go after children have a basic understanding of equivalent fractions.

They will definitely get your kiddos thinking and problem-solving, and quickly reveal any misconceptions. Our children love technology, and adding it to our teaching is a good thing as long as they are having real-life experiences in the classroom every day. This site is a continuation of the previous activities. Children are recognizing fractional models and then using them to find equivalent fractions. Using visual models is a great way to build fraction sense, and helps children understand equivalent fractions better.

This is a series that Math Geek Mama and I did together. It walks you through numerous ideas on helping children visualize fractions …not just memorize how to solve a problem.

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