Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Fractions: a puzzle or a lotto?

The club teachers provided a superb visual training on fractions in form of a puzzle-lotto-like game (for which they spend many hours at home to prepare the material!)

Each student got a set of 5 circles to fill. Then there were a lot of multicolored parts available (1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16). And each group of 5 kids had a dice to share. The dices were all different and they contained pictures of different fractions on each side (2/2, 3/8, 5/16, etc).


Tasks:
1. Get the own set of 5 wholes (circles) filled as soon as possible by throwing the dice in turns and getting the indicated fraction from the pool of the parts.
2. Given a random set of fractions (parts), how many wholes can one assemble?

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