Find Someone Who Knows - Fractions Mixed Review - Math Review Activity
- PDF
- Google Apps™
Description
Engage your whole class by playing one of my favorite review games....Find Someone Who Knows!
This edition of FSWK focuses on fractions and mixed numbers. This is a perfect review activity that is way more engaging than a worksheet!
Concepts covered:
- Comparing fractions (with either the numerator or denominator being the same).
- Writing fractions as a sum of unit fractions.
- Improper fractions.
- Adding and subtracting fractions with a common denominator.
- Converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions.
- Adding mixed numbers with a common denominator.
This review game takes approximately 15 minutes, and is a perfect closing activity. I also tend to use FSWK at the start of class before whole-class instruction or even right before a quiz.
In this PDF file you get:
- Link to a Google Slides file with the questions ready to go in a fun winter theme (courtesy of Slidesgo). Answers are found in the speaker notes.
- Link to a Google Doc of the student answer page (2 answer sheets per page).
- Instructions on how to play.
How Find Someone Who Knows works:
- Students get up and mingle around the classroom.
- Each time a new question is put on the board, they need to Find Someone Who Knows the answer to that question. (I tend not to read the question out loud as it is a fun, energetic activity. I sometimes add a sound effect into the Slides so they know a new question is up, I'll announce "Find Someone Who Knows!", or I'll use one of the sound effects items I keep in class. It's always fun to watch how eagerly they read the questions to each other).
- When the student finds someone who knows, the person they found tells him/her the answer. The original student writes down what he/she was told. Then, there is a space provided for the answer giver to sign his/her name to agree that, yep, that's the answer I told you!
- After students finish, they return to their seats so we can review the answers as a whole class.
My students LOVE this as it gives them a chance to move around the room and talk with each other. I always smile with pride when students who aren't normally the most confident get to become experts and have students eagerly trying to find an answer from them.
I hope that you have fun with this activity in your classroom.
Looking for another engaging fractions activity? Check out my Valentine's themed Equivalent Fractions activity!
