4th Grade Fractions Game – Fraction Knockout

This quick-paced, nail-biter of a 4th grade fractions game will leave your kids BEGGING for more! Team up to knock out the other team’s player. The last team standing wins! This is by far the most engaging thing I’ve done for my classroom this year. My kids get SO excited when we play, and they work super hard all week practicing math skills just so they can improve their Knockout™ game!

Not only is this GREAT for learning about fractions, but it builds character as it emphasizes teamwork and good sportsmanship.

A quick look at Knockout™ & how it is played:

• Divide your class into 2 single file lines
• Display the first slide
• The player at the front of his/her line faces off against the player from the other team: the first player to answer his/her question correctly wins and returns to the end of the line.
• The player who does not win goes to sit on the team “bench” to cheer on the team!

BUT WAIT. That’s not all. If a player faces these slides, the following could happen:

• Double Free Pass: Both players automatically get to stay in the game!
• Double Knockout™: Both players are automatically out!
• Knockout™/Free Pass: One player goes, one stays!
• Pick a Pal: Choose a player from the bench to return to the game!
• Knockout™/Pick a Pal: One player goes, the other chooses a friend to return!

The team with players standing at the end of the game wins. In our classroom, we like to keep teams the same for a week or two and keep a running score as a Knockout™ “tournament.”

This is a set of PowerPoint files and can be used on any device that supports PowerPoint. Each game is a PowerPoint presentation that has 35-40 slides. It is also available as a PDF; please read the “READ FIRST” file that comes with this product to view directions for PDF or PowerPoint set-up.

This pack includes the following 16 Knockout™ games and is perfect for practicing 4th grade fraction skills in a super fun way!

INCLUDED:

• Equivalent fraction models
• Adding proper fractions & mixed numbers [Like denominators]
• Multiplication and repeated addition of fractions
• Decomposing fractions
• Adding and subtracting unlike denominators [Solutions less than 1]
• Comparing improper fractions and mixed numbers
• Writing fractions as decimals
• Equivalent fractions [Denominators 10 and 100]
• Adding fractions [Denominators 10 and 100]
• Multiplying whole #’s by fractions
• Adding and subtracting like denominators [Solutions less than 1]
• Comparing fractions
• Converting mixed numbers to improper fractions
• Subtracting fractions and mixed numbers [Like denominators]
• Converting improper fractions to mixed numbers
• Adding fractions with unlike denominators [Solutions greater than 1]