Learn adding and subtracting fractions, mixed numbers included, then simplify, compare and order them by cutting cake trays in Pip's bakery.
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What the chapters cover in the national curriculum in England:
Adding and Subtracting Fractions is an interactive maths game that teaches children aged 9–11 to simplify, compare, order, add and subtract fractions, matching Year 6 of the national curriculum in England. Pip the penguin baker reads every line aloud, with captions on screen.
Players cut cake trays into equal slices and join them back together. They find the highest common factor to put a fraction in its simplest form, and use the lowest common multiple to give two fractions a common denominator. They drop improper fractions such as 7/4 onto a number line and type answers on a fraction keypad.
The game tackles common mix-ups head on, such as why 1/2 + 1/3 cannot be 2/5 and why a bigger denominator means smaller pieces. For mixed numbers, children learn to exchange a whole before subtracting. Optional warm-ups recap factors, multiples and mixed numbers first.
To add fractions with different denominators, rewrite them with a common denominator first, then add the numerators and keep the denominator the same. For example, 1/2 + 1/3 = 3/6 + 2/6 = 5/6. You never add the denominators together.
You simplify a fraction by dividing the numerator and the denominator by the same common factor. Dividing by the highest common factor does it in one step, so 12/18 divided by 6 gives 2/3, which is in its simplest form.
When the first fraction is smaller, exchange one whole for equal parts before you subtract. For 3 1/4 − 1 1/2, write 1/2 as 2/4, change 3 1/4 into 2 5/4, then subtract to get 1 3/4.
The game is pitched at Year 6, for children aged 10 to 11, and matches the KS2 maths curriculum in England. Confident Year 5 children can play too, and optional warm-ups recap factors, multiples and mixed numbers before the harder chapters.
It includes five chapters with animated introductions, hands-on cake-cutting activities and typed answers, plus a 10-question Champion Challenge. Playing everything takes about 50 minutes, and children can start any chapter from the bakery map.
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