Chicken Coop Fraction Estimation Game
- Be aware of the music. Fortunately, there is a button that can mute the music.
- Three easy, three hard levels
- Proper Fractions, Proper Fractions of Numbers, Improper Fractions, Improper Fractions of Numbers
- Middle school students may find it humorous that the chickens raise their backsides an "pop" an egg out
- Chickens will "fire" an egg toward the correct answer
- Get the answer wrong and things will get messy
- The "hard" problems are challenging
- No method for pausing and calculating while still looking at the problem
- If a student does pause to work on the problem, the answer is given immediately upon "continuing" of the game.
- Can adjust "time per question", can create a "no time" game
- Can adjust "accuracy"
- Word problem based
- Diagrams & labeling first, numbers added to the model next
- Can't proceed to next step without "checking" first
- Built in calculator
- Writing on iPad capabilities
- Instructions for students (should they choose to read them)
- Checks along the way provide "new" mathematical manipulatives
- CONFUSING: Number pad to enter answer, "Calculator On" button to obtain calculator for work
