FRACTION PINBALL™ (Grades 6-7)
The gameboard and game pieces in this fraction-decimal conversion game simulate the ricocheting action of pinballs in a pinball machine. In playing this game students must strategically position and move pawns and blocking chips to land on fraction values of the gameboard which are converted to decimal form and are added to or subtracted from an accumulated score. The goal of the game is to be the first player to reach an accumulated score of between 4.95 and 5.05. Since the gameboard is composed of a network of interconnected fraction circles, students must use both spatial and computational reasoning when making decisions.
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Fraction Pinball Instructional Video
This instructional video for Fraction Pinball describes how the game is played, shares some pre-activities for students to know before they play the game, and demonstrates some of the key strategies to think about during play.