Educational Insights Fraction Formula Game

My students, even the most math-phobic, absolutely love this game and ask to play it over and over! The colorful, translucent pieces and the graduated cylinders are so fun and easy for the kids to work with! Students build a wonderful sense of how denominator size relates to piece size, how different pieces can be put together to make the same fractions, which final piece would get them to one, or at least close to one, etc. For older students, we calculate just how close they are to one, by using least common denominators, equivalent fractions, fraction addition, etc. Some students get such a kick out of figuring out (or watching me figure out) just how close to one they are, just 1/120 or 1/60 away from one whole! It is truly thrilling to hear students strategize, hoping for one piece or another by name. All cards are unit fractions, fractions with a numerator of one, and color-coded to match the pieces they represent. We often use this set as a reference for other fraction games that involve denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, as it is such a colorful, visual, kinestic way to build fractions. One student even noticed that the different sized pieces make slightly different tones when they are dropped into the cylinder! There are so many teachable moments that crop up in the course of this game! I will have fond memories playing this game with my students for many years to come I am sure!!

I have an 8 year old who has just started learning about fractions. I also have an older child that struggles with math, so decided to get this fraction game.Each person gets a test tube to put the fraction pieces into it. The game comes with cards with different fraction amounts on them, and everybody takes turn taking the top card and then choosing the matching fraction piece to put into the test tube. When your tube starts getting full, you have to decide whether you want to stop taking cards and therefore pieces, or whether you want to take another card and hope that the piece that you get doesn't make your test tube "overflow". (The fraction pieces are made of a sparkly plastic so they don't really overflow, but they go past the top level mark and we call it overflowing when we play.) Once everybody has decided to not play further, everybody checks to see who is still in that round. If your test tube has overflowed, then you get no points for that round. The person who has their test tube filled closest to the line, without actually going over, is the winner. You get a 20 point card for winning the round, a 15 point card for coming second, and a 5 point card for coming third. We had a game where one person had only half filled their test tube but still won the round because every body else's test tubes had over flowed. You also get a bonus 5 points if you have filled your test tube exactly to the line.This set lets children see and compare the different size fraction pieces. It makes them start realizing that they need a big piece (with a smaller number) when they have a lot of space in their test tube, and a small piece (with a big number) when they have hardly any space left. It also makes them think whether they should stop or continue playing by working out how many pieces will still fit in their test tube and whether it's worth taking the risk and playing another round.My 8 year old has even played this game a few times by himself. He plays with all the test tubes and pretends each test tube is a different person and plays for them and then sees which one wins. He has also showed the older daycare children (4 year olds) how to play and even though they don't fully understand they enjoy playing with him. It actually gives him more practice helping them play and helping them decide whether they should stop or not.This set can also be used to compare the different sizes of the fractions with each other, and to show which combinations are equal to another fraction.The pieces are made of a solid plastic with see through test tubes and opaque sparkly "liquid" fractions pieces.This is a fun game and children will learn more every time they play it.

For this chemistry themed fraction game, up to four players may play. You draw a card, take the matching fraction tile (which are full of air bubbles so they look "fizzy'), and place it in your cylinder. The cards are color coded. 1/4 is written in yellow on the card, the 1/4 fraction tile is also yellow and has 1/4 written on it. (We noticed a few of the smallest pieces, 1/12 I believe, do not have the fraction written on them. Most of them do and because they are color coded it wasn't a problem.) Play continues around the circle with each player deciding to hold their position or continuing to draw with the possibility of drawing a fraction that will overfill your cylinder and put you out of the round. Once everyone has decided to hold (or gone over), the players still left compare who is closest to the "1 whole" line and are scored 20 points for first (with a 5 point bonus for hitting "1 whole" exactly), 15 for second, 10 for third, and 5 points fourth place. The game comes with small cards that you can use to keep track of the score and because the scoring is in increments of 5, it was a great opportunity to practice skip counting and addition. The game lasts 4 rounds and the player with the most points at the end, wins! I homeschool two boys (at this time 8 and 4) and this is something they both love. My 8 year old was making connections between how many parts make the whole and equivalent fractions on his own while playing. My 4 year old was able to play without a problem and was spending time matching the cards to the pieces by numbers and colors (and serving up delicious root beers and lime sodas to everyone at the table when the game was over). He had a harder time understanding the concept of "holding" but by the end of the game he had it figured out. The whole family loved this game, adults included. The gameplay is very fast and exciting so no one ends up bored. The game pieces are a great quality, seem very sturdy, and make a great math manipulative. I highly recommend!

Se ha vuelto un favorito de mi hijo. Excelente para trabajar el tema de fracciones de forma manipulativa y divertida.

Un jeu qui se joue en famille (4 Max). Très facile pour les plus jeunes car les cartes ont la même couleur que la fraction à sélectionner. Le but du jeu? Ne pas dépasser la ligne de l’entier et arriver sur la ligne (entier). Ce que j’aime du jeu c’est qu’il peut être utilisé comme matériel de manipulation pour représenter des fractions, travailler les fractions équivalentes et les opérations sur les fractions. Le matériel est très bien fait et j’en achèterais un aussi pour ma classe!

Ein ganz ganz tolles Spiel zum erlernen von Mengen und als kleiner Einstieg in die Bruchrechnung.... Auch mein sechsjähriger hat schon Spaß.... Im Prinzip ist es ja nur zuordnen und früh genug erkennen wann es genug ist. Aber auch was ein Halbes oder ein Ganzes oder ein Viertel ist, ist gut zu verstehen

分数の概念が直感的に理解できると思います。

Bon produit mais reste très basic et ne permet pas réellement d’approfondir les notions des fractions. Je parlerais plutôt d’une inteoduction au fractions.