GAMES LIBRARY
GRADES 4–5
Designed to meet these objectives:
Math
• Students will practice reducing fractions to their simplest forms.
• Students will recognize the relationship between improper fractions
and mixed numbers.
• Students will add and subtract fractions with like and unlike
denominators.
Reinforce fraction concepts with ready-to-use games that students can
play independently! Three fast-paced games provide hands-on practice
with different fraction skills: reducing fractions, changing improper
fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa, or adding and subtracting
fractions.
Each game can be played by two to four players, so they’re perfect for
early finishers or a math center. Allow students to choose a game, or
you can choose a game for them that reinforces a particular concept.
Each game comes with answer cards so students can check their
own answers.
What’s Included
• 3 fraction games (Please see individual game boxes for the contents of
each game.)
Getting Started
Each game comes with instructions on the box, so students can easily
refer back to them. Go over the instructions with students and make sure
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they understand the three different fraction skills before they play the
games on their own. Place the games in a math center and encourage
small groups of two, three or four students to choose and play a game.
Or, choose a game with a specific skill that you would like to reinforce,
and set it out for small groups to play. Show students how to use the
answer cards from each game to check their answers.
Blank paper and pencils may need to be provided so students can work
out the answers.
Playing the Games
Fraction Blaster Bingo
Students practice reducing fractions to their simplest form. One student
calls out the fraction to be reduced, everyone reduces the fraction and
then the players see if they have it on their bingo card. Players place a chip
on their card for each correctly reduced fraction they have. The first player
to get five chips in a row wins.
Fraction Contraption
Students match mixed numbers to improper fractions and vice versa
by spinning a spinner and choosing tiles. Each player uses an activity
mat that has a column of improper fractions and a column of mixed
numbers. If a tile matches a mixed number or an improper fraction
on the mat, the player places the tile on the mat. The first player to
complete his or her mat wins.
Note: In case any tiles become lost, we’ve included two blank tiles for
your convenience. Simply write the fraction on the tile with a permanent
marker.
Fraction Action
Students follow a path on a game board. They choose problem cards,
solve the problems and then check their answers. Each player gets to
try to solve the problem for each card chosen, but only the player who
chooses the card follows the directions on it. As an incentive, other
players who answer correctly get to advance if the player who chooses
the card does not answer the problem correctly. The first player who
reaches “Finish” wins.
Informal Assessment Ideas
Choose eight to ten cards or tiles from any game and have students write
the answers on a separate sheet of paper. Collect the papers and file in
students’ folders as a record of their progress.
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Meeting Individual Needs
ELL
Fraction Blaster Bingo
Review fraction vocabulary and key words. Review how to say the
names of the fractions. If necessary, allow students to help others read
the call-out cards.
Fraction Contraption
Review fraction vocabulary and model how to read the spinner.
Encourage students to read the tiles aloud for extra vocabulary practice,
and encourage them to read their completed mats aloud.
Fraction Action
Model reading the questions and directions on the cards aloud. Create a
fraction vocabulary chart with pictures and allow students to refer to it
during the game.
Reteach/Extra Support
Make sure to provide paper and pencils for all games.
Fraction Blaster Bingo
Review how to reduce fractions. Create a step-by-step chart and display it
so that students can refer back to it. Allow students to achieve a “bingo”
by having three chips in a row instead of five.
Fraction Contraption
Work with students to play the game. As each student spins, point out
the type of tile or tiles drawn and ask which side of the mat it would
belong on. Is it an improper fraction or a mixed number? Make sure
students can convert the fractions and show their work on paper.
Fraction Action
Have students play in pairs to solve the problems on the question cards
together.
Challenge
Fraction Blaster Bingo
Challenge students to play different versions of bingo. For example, have
them play until one student makes an “X” on her card, or until one player
completely fills his card.
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Fraction Contraption
Give students a timer and allow a certain amount of time for each player
to convert her fractions and place her tiles. There could be different times
for converting one tile, two tiles or three tiles. Tiles that have not been
placed when the timer goes off are put back into the bag to be drawn
again.
Fraction Action
Invite students to create more question cards for the game. Encourage
them to create cards with more difficult problems, such as adding three
fractions or adding and subtracting mixed numbers. Encourage them
to choose what happens when the question is answered correctly or
incorrectly.