Fractions
Look at the pizza and pick the colored fraction. A free game for grades 3 and 4.
How to play
- A pizza cut into equal slices appears, with some slices colored.
- Your child picks the right fraction out of three.
- Each right answer on the first try wins a star. A game has 10 questions.
What your child learns
- What the top and bottom numbers mean
- Reading fractions: a half, a third, a quarter...
- Matching a fraction to a picture
Examples from the game
- 1/2
- 1/4
- 3/4
- 2/3
- 5/6
- 3/8
Parent and teacher card
- Age
- Ages 8 to 9
- Level
- Grades 3 and 4
- Topic
- Numbers and math
- Length
- 10 questions, about 5 minutes
- Skills
- What the top and bottom numbers mean · Reading fractions: a half, a third, a quarter... · Matching a fraction to a picture
- At home
- Cut a fruit or a loaf into equal parts with your child and ask: how many parts did we eat? What fraction is that?
- In class
- split pupils into two teams that answer in turn. Ask each pupil to explain how they found the answer.