About Fractions: Mixed Numbers
Explore fractions while you help yourself to 1 and 1/2 chocolate cakes and wash it down with 1/3 a glass of water! Create your own fractions using fun interactive objects. Match shapes and numbers to earn stars in the mixed number game. Challenge yourself on any level you like. Try to collect lots of stars!
How to play Fractions: Mixed Numbers
Everything is hands-on: drag, click and experiment — the simulation reacts instantly. Explore fractions while you help yourself to 1 and 1/2 chocolate cakes and wash it down with 1/3 a glass of water!
Questions & answers
- What is Fractions: Mixed Numbers?
- Fractions: Mixed Numbers is a free interactive simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations (University of Colorado Boulder) that you can play right in your browser on crumble.lol — no downloads and no sign-up. Explore fractions while you help yourself to 1 and 1/2 chocolate cakes and wash it down with 1/3 a glass of water! Create your own fractions using fun interactive objects.
- What can kids learn from Fractions: Mixed Numbers?
- It helps kids explore: predict and explain how changing the numerator of a fraction affects the fraction's value predict and explain how changing the denominator of a fraction affects the fraction's value convert between a picture of a fraction, an improper fraction, and a mixed number build matching fractions using numbers and pictures.
- What age is Fractions: Mixed Numbers good for?
- It is designed for elementary school (roughly ages 5–10) up to middle school (roughly ages 10–14), and curious kids outside that range can absolutely enjoy poking around it too.
- Is Fractions: Mixed Numbers free to play?
- Yes — Fractions: Mixed Numbers is completely free on crumble.lol and runs fully in your browser on computers and tablets.