Additional Resources Used in the Fifth-Grade Resource Evaluation Activity.
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Mr. Maffesoli (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007) | A printable worksheet that gave a strictly symbolic example of fraction addition at the top, followed by 16 practice problems. |
| Stuffed with Pizza (Hashim, Santino, & De La Cruz, 2011) | A task developed by the New York City Department of Education to be CCSSM aligned. This was multi-step word problem in which several children eat different portions of three different pizzas. Students are to determine which child ate the most pizza. They are directed to “show all of your mathematical thinking.” |
| Fruit Shoot (Sheppard Software, 2010) | A game where a symbolic fraction addition problem is given under a movable cursor. Animated fruit float across the screen with different answers. The user must “shoot” the fruit with the correct answer. The game tracks the number of correct and incorrect answers. |
| Card Match (Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 2003) | A game where the user turns over a virtual card which either shows a fraction or a sum of fractions. Then another card can be turned over. The object is to match all of the sums with the answers. |
| Mr. Maffesoli ( | A printable worksheet that gave a strictly symbolic example of fraction addition at the top, followed by 16 practice problems. |
| Stuffed with Pizza ( | A task developed by the New York City Department of Education to be CCSSM aligned. This was multi-step word problem in which several children eat different portions of three different pizzas. Students are to determine which child ate the most pizza. They are directed to “show all of your mathematical thinking.” |
| Fruit Shoot ( | A game where a symbolic fraction addition problem is given under a movable cursor. Animated fruit float across the screen with different answers. The user must “shoot” the fruit with the correct answer. The game tracks the number of correct and incorrect answers. |
| Card Match ( | A game where the user turns over a virtual card which either shows a fraction or a sum of fractions. Then another card can be turned over. The object is to match all of the sums with the answers. |
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