Activity Description Students play a generalized version of connect four, gaining the chance to place a piece on the board by answering questions about simplify fractions, converting fractions to decimals and percents, as well as algebra questions involving fractions. Parameters: Level of difficulty and question type.

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Fraction Four

Place in mathematics curriculum:

• convert fraction, decimals, and percents
• simplify fractions
• develop number sense

This applet allows the students to learn to multiply, add, simplify and convert fractions, decimals and percents by playing a game. This activity would work well in same ability groups of two for about twenty minutes if you use the exploration questions and ten to fifteen minutes otherwise.

Preparations for this activity:

• explain the rules of Fraction Four (i.e. the rules for Connect Four)
• reassign partners! It will not be wise to keep a student in a loosing situation. Everyone should be able to win. This situation could cause classroom disturbances, negative social consequences, and negative attitudes towards math.
• supervise the weaker students. They may need help remembering how to do the calculations.