Product Description

Grades 1 & up. Players collect the different sized slices of Auntie Pasta's pizza to fill up the pizza pans, making this a fun way to introduce your students to fractions. Includes 12" x 17" games board, pizza fraction cards, and spinner. 2-4 players.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16148 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Learning Resources
• Model: LER5053
• Released on: 2007-01-01
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds

Features

• Auntie Pasta has been busy making pizzas. Now it's up to you to put the pieces together!
• Perfect for introducing fractions.
• Includes 17" x 12" game board, pizza fraction slices and spinner.
• Be the first player to get three "fraction pies" in a row and you win!
• For 2 to 4 players.

Editorial Review
Someone's in the kitchen with Auntie Pasta, cooking up pizza-specific ways to teach younger children the basics of beginning fractions. This game for two to four players includes a spinner and a playing board with circles divided into halves, thirds, or quarters. Players receive cardboard pieces of pizza in different sizes (with corresponding numerical fractions on the back). The sections are placed on the circles during the game to create complete pizzas, with tiny cardboard pizza boxes to cover each completed pie. The game requires very little reading (just a few basic words on the spinner), and it's a good way to introduce the concepts of pie-chart fractional divisions as well as simpler fractional concepts. Adaptable for preschoolers as well as for older siblings, it's a good choice for home schoolers or family game night--with pizza for dinner, of course! --Marcie Bovetz

Amazon.com Teacher Review
You'll have fun learning about fractions while playing this clever pizza-making game. Everyone engages in active, hands-on math from the start, because the pizza slices need to be sorted into wholes, halves, thirds, and quarter piles before players can begin. Players take turns twirling the spinner and trying to collect pizza slices to fill all four of their pans, and the first player to completely fill all of his or her pizza pans wins. The spinner sections add dimension and strategy to the game. You can land on a space that allows you to choose any size slice you need, or give one of your slices to another player, or earn a pizza box (which can be used to protect the slices you have from your opponents). All parts are well constructed, and the pizza slices have the fraction symbol written on the back, reinforcing the concept of fractions. Auntie Pasta's Fraction Game is engaging, and it can be played with two to four people. --Lauren Bernard is an elementary school teacher and the proud mother of Eli.

From the Manufacturer
Auntie Pasta has been busy making pizzas. Now it's up to you to put the pieces together! Collect different size slices to fill up your pizza pans. Perfect for introducing fractions. Includes 17" x 12" game board, pizza fraction slices and spinner. For 2 to 4 players.

Customer Reviews

Great learning game & fun!
My daughter had some trouble conceptualizing fractions and this game made it concrete for her. We had fun putting together the pizzas. The game doesn't take long and you can add some extra learning to it yourself. For instance, ask your child what is larger 3/4s or 1/2. They can see the little pizzas and can tell you the answer. They will have this concrete image stored inside their little brains and when asked the same questions in school will be able to tell their teacher. Great fun with a learning bonus!

Auntie's fraction game
This game is very educational, I think that we are going to have loads of fun with it