Fractions WebsitesPlease preview first and consider how students can learn from a particular activity. All

activities on a website are not equivalent in value. ☺

iPad Compatiblehttp://www.visnos.com/ click on DEMOS (visnos = visual numbers)

http://www.visualfractions.com/ only the activities in “Identify Fractions” and “Rename Fractions” are available in an HTML iPad compatible version (including “Find Grampy”). Circle, number line, and set (group) models including mixed numbers. Fractions operations activities are very good but not iPad compatible.

http://www.teacherled.com/iresources/fractionsapps/index.html A menu of iPad compatible Fractions, Decimals, and Percents activities (sample below)

http://catalog.mathlearningcenter.org/apps Can dowload free iPad apps. Excellent virtual manipulatives with lots of possible applications to learning about fractions: geoboards, pattern blocks, number frames (use single

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counters for set model; hundred grids for fractions→ decimals); math vocab cards (in English & Spanish, but no audio)

iPad Compatible, cont.

http://mrnussbaum.com/html5.html Fractions activities & more.

Web-based Apps (not iPad compatible)ALL of the above and…

http://catalog.mathlearningcenter.org/apps Click on “Open Web App” to use on computer. Geoboards, pattern blocks, number frames (use single counters for set model; hundred grids for fractions→ decimals); math vocab cards (in English & Spanish, but no audio) are good virtual manipulatives

http://www.taw.org.uk/lic/itp/itps/fractions_1_1.swf

http://www.hbschool.com/activity/cross_the_river/cross_the_river.swf early fraction concepts - models for halves, thirds, and fourths

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Web-based, cont.http://www2.nzmaths.co.nz/LearningObjects/FractionBar/index.html

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?b=maths/fractions click on “Testing Room” for comparison of fractions with vertical linear models

http://illuminations.nctm.org/Search.aspx?view=search&type=ac&gr=Pre-K-2_3-5_6-8

Concentration Fraction Models Equivalent Fractions Fraction Game

(aka Fraction Tracks)

http://www.mathplayground.com/math_manipulatives.html and

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http://www.mathplayground.com/games.html some great manipulatives and activities, including relating fractions to decimals and/or percentshttp://www.mathplayground.com/number_bonds_fractions.html especially appropriate for gr 3

number bonds http://mrnussbaum.com/mathcode/ - lots here, not just fractions activities

http://www-k6.thinkcentral.com/content/hsp/math/hspmath/tx/common/itools_int_9780153616419_/fractions.html fraction bars, circles, two-color counters; link also in Blackboard Student Resources (Math)

http://www.math-play.com/adding-and-subtracting-fractions-game.html board game - practice +/- fractions with unlike denominators. Can only play once as there is only one version - cards repeat.

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http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=WhatFractionv3 best for fundamental fraction concepts.

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