Decimal, Fraction and
Percent Magic Squares
Tools:
• Copy of Magic Square board
Equipment check:
• Copy, laminate and cut the board apart. Give one set of squares to each group of students.
Start your engine:
• This Magic Squares board is a 3 by 3 square.
• The squares need to be sorted by the students into three categories.
- Squares that have writing on two sides.
- Squares that have writing on three sides.
- Squares that have writing on four sides.
• The object of this activity is to line up decimals, fractions or percents. There will be no writing
along the outer edges of the square.
• The two-sided squares are the corners and the three-sided squares are the edges.
• The four-sided square is the middle of the board.
Finish line:
• When the board is put together correctly, each decimal, fraction or percent is beside an equivalent
form of the same amount.
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1
3
4
10
40%
.75
75%
Decimal, Fraction and
Percent Magic Squares
.80
4
5
.20
1
5
2
3
25%
1
4
.333
.666
.50
50%
1.00
100%
.70
70%
10%
1
10
.60
3
5
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