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The goal of this game is to have the greater fraction.
Comparing fractions
Grade 3: CCSS.3.NF.A.1
CCSS.3.NF.A.3
Grade 4: CCSS.4.NF.A:1
CCSS.4.NF.A.2
Grade 5
Two players
Materials
• fraction card deck
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How to play
The cards are shuffled and dealt facedown to the players, (Players take turns being the dealer.)
Players keep their cards in a facedown stack,
Players turn over their top card and compare their fractions. The player with the greater fraction
takes both cards.
If players have fractions of equal value, for instance, 3/4 and 9/12, each player turns over one
rnore card and the fractions are compared. The player with the greater fraction takes all four
cards.
Play continues in this rnanner until all the cards in the players' facedown stacks have been drawn,
The player with more cards wins.
Questions
• How do you know your fraction is greater than the other player's?
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• Were there any fractions that were easier to compare? Why? Any fractions that were harder to
compare? Why?
• What did you do to figure out which fraction was greater?
Variation: The game is played in a similar way, but the goal is to have the lesser fraction, That
player takes all the cards for the round,
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