Math Fraction Games and Activities Make Learning Fraction Easy

Fraction activities and math fraction games need to be part of the curriculum when teaching kids fraction.

Fraction is one of those math topics that we need the kids to “touch and see” in order for them to understand. It can be fun when we let kids explore cutting up different shapes and trying to fix them back. Sometimes, it can be like a puzzle.

Mathematics manipulative such as fraction tray and linking cubes are great math teaching tools to introduce fraction to kids. There are also many fraction activities and math fraction games for us to constantly reinforce the concept of fraction.

Paper Folding

Pair up two kids in team. Give each team in big piece of paper. Give clear instruction to fold paper into half. Show them how to fold if needed. Have the two kids stand on the folded paper. Turn on music for a minute. Make sure no one fall outside the folded paper during the one minute. Continue by folding paper into quarter and turn on music. The last team that continues to “balance” on the smallest fraction of folded paper wins.

Open up the folded paper at the end of the game to find out the number of section folded by each team. Use pen to draw the folded line if needed to see which team has folded the most (but has smaller individual pieces) and the least (but has bigger individual pieces).

Fix a puzzle to form whole

Get a party paper plate with beautiful picture on it. Cut it up into six equal parts. Let your kid fix back the puzzle to form back the picture on the plate. Explain one piece of the puzzle out of the six pieces mean one-sixth. For younger kids, you may want to start with quarter and slowly progress to sixth, eighth and twelfth.

Equal food distribution

We can turn dinning or snack time into one of the math fraction games. If you are serving pizza, cake or chocolate, let the kids cut the food for distribution. Challenge a child to cut the food equally depending on the number of children serve. Ask them what portion is served for each person. Whoever answers correctly get to eat the food first!!…. Or more serving as reward.

Fix, Match and Win

Make different pieces of a circle on colored paper. Here is a suggestion:

Two pieces of 1/12, 2/12 and 3/12 each
One piece of 4/12, 5/12, 6/12, 7/12, 8/12, 9/12, 10/12 and 11/12 each

Put all the pieces into a bag. Have a player draws a piece from the bag. Second player draws another piece and try to join to the first piece. If it makes more than a whole, put the piece back into the bag. Continue the game until a player manages to complete the circle. The player who completes the circle is the winner.

Know your equivalent

You can include fraction board game as one of the math fraction gams. Make a game board with various fractions on it. Here is a sample you can use.

You need:
- A set of dice
- 12 green colored tokens and 12 red colored tokens. You can make more colored tokens if you have more than two players.

Each player rolls the dice. One number will represent the numerator and the other number represents the denominator. Cover the fraction on the game board, including the equivalent fraction. For example, if you have one-half ie ½, you need to cover two quarters (2/4) and its entire equivalent found on the board. If one player already covers the equivalent fraction, you can replace the counter.

Take turn to throw the dice. Roll the dice again if it turns out to be a double. Whoever covers the fractions in a row wins the game.

Fraction worksheets

In addition to math fraction games, fraction worksheets are great resources for fraction activities. Printable fraction worksheets keep children occupied and get them to learn on the go in any setting.

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