Students can also create their own fraction manipulatives at home. The first time I tried to make fraction strips with students, I could not get my odd number denominator strips to turn out correctly.
It can be challenging to fold the paper an odd number of times and still get the strips to be the same size. With some time and research, I created a method for ensuring all of my fraction strips including the odd denominators are the right size. Learn more about the method I use to create fraction strips by watching the following video.
This video can also be shared with students and their parents so that they can follow along as they make their own fraction strips at home. After your students have fraction manipulatives to work with, they can use those manipulatives to play fraction games. When thinking about fraction activities and games to play virtually with students, consider what you already do when teaching fractions in the classroom.
A lot of activities and games can likely be replicated for virtual learning with some minor modifications. Some of my favorite fraction activities to replicate for online learning are card games. While teaching over Zoom or another video conferencing software, create fractions by flipping over two cards.
Students can compare, add, or subtract the fractions and write their responses on a piece of paper. Then, call on students to hold their answers up to the camera. Another fun way to teach fractions is with a virtual bingo game.
Most upper elementary students love playing bingo and virtual bingo games are easy to make. The following video shows how I create a class set of bingo cards and push them out to students in under five minutes.
Finally, I am a big fan of virtual task cards because students enjoy them and they are self-grading. Anytime I can cut down on time spent grading is a win! Visualizing what fractions represent is easier and a lot more fun when you use LEGO bricks! Lay them out side by side or build towers. No matter how you play, this is a sure-fire hit. Such a fun, colorful way to play with fractions and equivalencies! Get the full instructions here.
Turn the music up! Continue folding the paper into smaller and smaller dance floors and watch kids get creative as they try to stay on the paper.
Learn more: Mrs. This is such a fun activity! Grab the free printable street scene at the link. Then, have kids follow the directions to add details.
Ask kids to reduce the fraction, then draw the correct number of pups. Draw a hopscotch board on the playground or outline one with tape on your classroom or hallway floor. Label the squares with fractions instead of whole numbers.
Kids throw a marker and jump to where it lands, then name the equivalent fractions for that square. Learn more: Capturing Classroom Ideas. Who knew there were so many fractions hiding inside your own name? Pose these questions to students, and ask them to find their own fractions too.
Provide a variety of food images cut from magazines or printed out from the Internet. Students plan a picnic and choose the food they want to bring along. Using a ruler and scissors, cut portions of their food choices and glue them to a paper plate. Finally, label each item with the fraction name. Since the spinners are just pencils and paper clips, every kid can have their own as they practice their fraction skills.
Get the whole free set of games here. Who Wants Pizza? Online lessons that explain the concept of a fraction plus addition and multiplication of fractions using a pizza example.
It also includes some interactive exercises. Fractions Workshop An online practice platform for all fraction operations. The application gives you problems that you can work out on the online "workmat", and then it checks your answer.
Fraction lessons at MathExpression. Look for the lesson links in the left sidebar. Visual Math Learning Free tutorials with some interactivity about all the fraction operations. Emphasizes visual models and lets student interact with those.
Fractioncity Make "fraction streets" and help kids with comparing fractions, equivalent fractions, addition of fractions of like and unlike denominators while they drive toy cars on the streets. This is not an online activity but has instructions of how to do it at home or at school.
Math Mammoth Fractions 1 A self-teaching worktext for 5th grade that teaches fractions and their operations with visual models. Online Fraction Calculator Add, subtract, multiply or divide fractions and mixed numbers. Fraction Worksheets: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division Create custom-made worksheets for the four operations with fractions and mixed numbers.
Matching Fractions Level 1 Match each fraction to its visual model. Fractions Splat Four levels: 1 Identify equal or unequal parts; 2 Identify shapes that are divided into halves, thirds, and fourths; 3 and 4 Find the visual model that matches the given fraction. Concentration from Illuminations A matching game you can play by yourself or against a friend, matching fractions to equivalent visual representations. The game also allows you to play a matching game with whole numbers, shapes, or multiplication facts.
Also available for your phone or tablet. Fraction Frenzy 4 Choose the pizza picture that matches the fraction shown using the four arrow keys. Fraction Booster Fraction Booster contains five different activities: 1 Type in the number of children and the computer cuts a pizza into that many pieces. Visualizing Fractions The computer shows a fraction, and you divide the pie and color the pieces.
Fractions - Naming Name the fraction shown by the shape. Clara Fraction's Ice Cream Shop A game in which you convert improper fractions to mixed numbers and scoop the right amount of ice cream flavors on the cone. Equivalent Fractions Draw two other, equivalent fractions to the given fraction. Choose either square or circle for the shape. Fraction Frenzy Click on pairs of equivalent fractions, as fast as you can.
See how many levels you can get! Fresh Baked Fractions Practice equivalent fractions by clicking on a fraction that is not equal to others. Worksheets for equivalent fractions Create free worksheets for equivalent fractions, with or without visual models grades Available both in html and PDF formats.
See also my video, which shows a visual method for equivalent fractions : that of splitting the pieces further into a certain number of new pieces:.
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