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Throw that Cheese

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COMBINED RATING

3.8 Stars

TEACHERS (13)

3.5

STUDENTS (5784)

4.1

LENGTH

10 Minutes

GRADES

CAPABILITIES

iPad Support

Spanish Language Support

Text-to-Speech Support

Description

Throw and feed cheese to incoming rats to prevent them wreaking chaos outside the hole. Be careful, you'll need to use fractions to know how to divvy up the cheese to the rats!

Vocabulary Words

fractions

half

divide

equal

parts

whole

numerator

unit fraction

denominator

multiplication

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about Fraction Word Problem Multiplication. Suitable for Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5.

Main Concepts

Multiply a whole number and a fraction by using the reasoning of the whole number multiplier as groups of the fraction to be added together (3 x 2/5 as 2/5 + 2/5 + 2/5 = (3 x 2)/5 = 6/5).

See a fraction as numerator as a whole number multiplied by the unit fraction with the same denominator ( 9/5 = 9 x 1/5).

Apply previous understanding of multiplication that 3 x 7 can be represented as the number of objects in 3 groups of 7 objects, and write this as 7 + 7 + 7 to multiplication of fraction by a whole number.

All fractions are a composition of their unit fraction.

Unit fractions or fractions with a numerator of 1, which are formed by partitioning a whole into equal parts and taking one part. e.g. If a whole is partitioned into 3 equal parts then each part is 1/3.

Unit fractions are to be understood to be the basic building block of all fractions.

Problems are Result Unknown, not Product Unknown.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

How is a fraction created? What are the parts of a fraction and how do they relate to a whole? Does the denominator have to be the same to add fractions? What about when multiplying fractions? In this game, you are required to multiply whole numbers by fractions - what do you multiply the whole number by, the numerator or the denominator? What is a unit fraction?

After the Game

What does the numerator of each fraction tell you? How many 1/5ths are in the fraction 5/5ths? In this game, you were required to give the rats a certain part of the fraction - if 5 rats wanted 2/3rds of a cheese, how much total cheese would you need to feed them? What happened if you didn't have enough cheese for all of the mice? What does it mean if the numerator is larger than the denominator? How does the denominator help you understand how many parts there are of a fraction?

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Game Details

Difficulty

Content Integration

Lexile Level

705