| Mixed-Number Fractions |
| A fraction can represent parts that are more than a whole. |
| Number & Operations
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Shari Spotter, star student of Frogsnorts School of Sorcerers, is in trouble! Entrusted with baking the all-powerful Cosmic Crumpets for the annual Sorcerer's Ball, she burns the magical treats and must concoct a new batch. But she is stymied because the recipe contains strange, top-heavy fractions. Digit and the kids must help Shari sort out the confusion of the mixed numbers. But can they do it before Hacker earns a degree in Sorcery from the Wicked Witch and becomes the most powerful magician in Cyberspace?!
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Bianca Takes the Cake (Available Online Soon)
Bianca is helping her friend Nicole make cupcakes for her school's Halloween bake sale. When they decide to double the recipe, Bianca helps Nicole understand how to deal with a fraction that has a numerator larger than the denominator. Chocolate bars divided into thirds help to make sweet treats.
Math message: A fraction can represent parts that are more than a whole. When the numerator is larger than the denominator, you can still work with it if you remember that it represents separate parts of a whole.
Math message: A fraction can represent parts that are more than a whole. When the numerator is larger than the denominator, you can still work with it if you remember that it represents separate parts of a whole.
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I'll Halve S'more Please!
Students explore ways that fractions are the numbers to use when you need to share using tasty s'mores.
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13 Ways of Looking at a Half
This activity allows the player multiple ways of viewing half of a square that has been divided into eight parts. The player selects and fills each of four parts with color to create a type of "quilt square" pattern. To find 13 different representations of "half", the player must use a systematic way of selecting the design without repeating any previous ones, and the player must also recognize a rotation -- that is, if a pattern is repeated, but in a different position.
Melvin's Make a Match
In Melvin's messy lab, players need to find matching potion bottles. The bottles can be matched using the information on their labels-- equivalent fractions.
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Find the Fractions
In this activity, kids explore the math topic 'equivalent fractions' and discover that fractions that look different can still represent the same portion of a whole.
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