Equivalent Fractions: Snowball Fight

Instructions 1. Give each student a half sheet of paper

with a fraction on it. Tell them to crumpleit up like a snowball.

2. Explain to students that they will behaving a snowball fight. During the fight,they will throw paper snowballs at eachother without running or yelling. Whentold to “freeze,” they need to stop thesnowball fight immediately.

3. Begin the fight, and stop it whenappropriate.

4. Have each student choose one snowball,open it up, and find a partner that has afraction that is equivalent to their own.Partners should stand next to each otheruntil everybody has found a partner.

5. Check that each student partnered upappropriately, and then repeat!

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