Fractional Spoons A Game of Fraction, Decimal, Percent Equivalency! Fractional Spoons Directions Materials: Deck of Spoons playing cards—copies on the next pages Spoons (one less than the number of people playing) Objective: Get four cards of equivalent fraction, decimal, percent, visual percent. Once you have all four equivalent fractions, quietly take a spoon. End each round with the possession of a spoon. Watch all players very carefully! The player without a spoon looses the round. Directions: Divide students into small groups (Make certain you have at least 1 spoon for each student, less one, and 1 deck of Spoons cards for each group). Have players sit in a circle, with the spoons laying in the middle, so all players can reach them. After the cards are shuffled, the dealer deals out 4 cards to each player. The remaining cards are laid down near the dealer and become the draw pile. Moving in a clockwise direction, the dealer draws a card from the draw pile and play begins. If he/she wants to keep that drawn card, he/she must take 1 card from his/her hand and discard to the player to the left. Play moves to the person on his/her left. That player can either pick up the discarded card from the player to the right and take 1 card from their hand to discard to the player to the left, keeping 4 cards in their hand, or pass the discarded card on to the player to his/her left. He/she must discard one card, making certain to only have 4 cards in his/her possession at any one time during this game. Cards quickly keep passing from the dealer to the player to the left and their player to the left until someone has four equivalent fractions. Once a player has 4 equivalent fraction cards, he/she takes a spoon from the middle of the circle. All players immediately follow by taking a spoon, much like sitting in a chair in the game Musical Chairs. The player then lays his/her 4 cards down for all players to check. Shuffle the cards, change dealers and start again. This game is fast paced and meant for quick recall those benchmark fractions with their equivalent decimals and percents. Construction Information 1. Copy pages 4 - 31 on cardstock 2.Copy front to back Front 3.Laminate if you wish. 4.Enjoy!!! 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Once you have all four equivalent fractions, quietly take a spoon. End each round with the possession of a spoon. Watch all players very carefully! The player without a spoon looses the round. Directions: Divide students into small groups (Make certain you have at least 1 spoon for each student, less one, and 1 deck of Spoons cards for each group). Have players sit in a circle, with the spoons laying in the middle, so all players can reach them. After the cards are shuffled, the dealer deals out 4 cards to each player. The remaining cards are laid down near the dealer and become the draw pile. Moving in a clockwise direction, the dealer draws a card from the draw pile and play begins. If he/she wants to keep that drawn card, he/she must take 1 card from his/her hand and discard to the player to the left. Play moves to the person on his/her left. That player can either pick up the discarded card from the player to the right and take 1 card from their hand to discard to the player to the left, keeping 4 cards in their hand, or pass the discarded card on to the player to his/her left. He/she must discard one card, making certain to only have 4 cards in his/her possession at any one time during this game. Cards quickly keep passing from the dealer to the player to the left and their player to the left until someone has four equivalent fractions. Once a player has 4 equivalent fraction cards, he/she takes a spoon from the middle of the circle. All players immediately follow by taking a spoon, much like sitting in a chair in the game Musical Chairs. The player then lays his/her 4 cards down for all players to check. Shuffle the cards, change dealers and start again. This game is fast paced and meant for quick recall those benchmark fractions with their equivalent decimals and percents. ©Nancy Hughes 2006 Fractional Spoons ©Nancy Hughes 2006