The app that I chose to download is slice it! begins. This version was free and you are able to play 15 levels. There is a version that you can buy for 99 cents that you can play more levels on. To begin this game you are given a square. You have one cut and are supposed to cut it in half. The pieces are to be equal in size. After you make your cut it tells you the percentage that each slice is. There are various different pieces that you are to cut. As you go on there are more pieces that you need to cut each shape into. There are tips at the bottom to give some help. When cutting a triangle it reminds you that the bottom part of the triangle is bigger. I app-laud this app. I had fun playing it and I keep trying to get perfects when slicing the shapes in half.
I enjoyed using this app and I think it could be very useful when dealing with fractions, especially in the younger grades. It offers a visual example of what one-half, one-third, one-fourth, and so on of an object would look like. It is very addicting to use and is fun way to help students struggling with fractions to understand how they can be combined to create a whole.
ReplyDeleteThis app looks so cool. I always had a really hard time with fractions and things like that when I was in school, so this would have been a good tool for me to use.
ReplyDeleteI have always had trouble with fractions. This app is defiantly great to use because it helps the students visually see what they are being ask to do but also connecting with what they did by seeing it in front of them! Great find!
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