Description
Looking for fun STAAR prep activities for 4th grade? Look no further! Fractions Trashketball is an exciting fraction review game that your students will LOVE playing. With this game, your students will have a blast while reviewing essential fraction skills. Even though this was designed specifically with the STAAR in mind, many skills are similar to the common core standards.
NEW TO TRASHKETBALL?
Trashketball is an exciting game that requires minimum setup.
Materials needed:
- Trash can
- Ball
- Problems to solve
Game instructions:
- Split your class into teams.
- Display a question from the fraction game
- Teams get points for correct answers and a chance to shoot a basket for bonus points.
Digital Trashketball
You get two versions of this digital game: PowerPoint and Google Slides. Choose the format that works best for you. Both versions include built-in answer keys.
✅ WHAT’S INCLUDED:
- Digital game cards (PowerPoint & Google Slides)
- Built-in answer key
- Student recording sheet
- Bonus student recording sheet with three challenge problems.
THIS GAME COVERS THE FOLLOWING TEKS:
- 4.2G – relate decimals to fractions that name tenths and hundredths
- 4.3A – represent a fraction a/b as a sum of fractions 1/b, where a and b are whole numbers and b > 0, including when a > b
- 4.3B – decompose a fraction in more than one way into a sum of fractions with the same denominator using concrete and pictorial models and recording results with symbolic representations
- 4.3C – determine if two given fractions are equivalent using a variety of methods
- 4.3D – compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators and represent the comparison using the symbols >, =, or <
- 4.3E – represent and solve addition and subtraction of fractions with equal denominators using objects and pictorial models that build to the number line and properties of operations
- 4.3F – evaluate the reasonableness of sums and differences of fractions using benchmark fractions 0, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, and 1, referring to the same whole
- 4.3G – represent fractions and decimals to the tenths or hundredths as distances from zero on a number line
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