Free Three Billy Goats Gruff Fraction Bridge Puzzles & Building Card Printables
Fractions can be so hard to learn. And using a bridge and the story of the Three Billy Goats make learning fractions fun.
Kids can learn fractions as they build the bridge and then build the bridge based on the bridge crossing questions. Or even use the Billy goats for how far they cross the bridge.
The Free Three Billy Goat Fraction Bridge Puzzles will give you a simple way to work on fractions that gave a hands-on practice.
Free Three Billy Goats Fraction Bridge Puzzle is a part of the 5 Days of Free Three Billy Goat Gruff Printables.
The Three Billy Goats Fraction Puzzles with Building Cards are a great addition to the fraction printables on the site.
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What are fractions?
It is a numerical quantity that is not a whole number. It is also a number divided into equal parts.
Examples of fractions are 1/2 or half of a whole number.
You can see fractions like 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/8, 1/10. There are many different fractions that kids can work on.
Three Billy Goats Fraction Bridge Puzzles & Building Cards
The Three Billy Goat fraction bridge puzzles and building cards gives you a fun way to learn fractions and talk about the different sizes of fractions and use them with a fun story that is a classic with kids.
You have bridge fraction puzzles and bridge building cards with fractions on the cards.
Bridge Fractions Puzzle Printable
Each of the bridge fraction puzzles are horizonal. The puzzles have the fractions on are under the bridge. I laminate each of the fraction puzzles. This makes the puzzles last longer. The fractions start the left side of the bridge and build up going to the right.
This is to help kids learn more about fractions with a similar picture.
You will find fractions for the following numbers: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10.
Bridge Building Fraction Cards Printable
The bridge building fraction cards has fractions for each of the numbers all the while tot he whole for each number. This is a way to explore the different fractions for each number. You have three Billy Goats to use with the fractions cards as well.
Fraction Building Mat
You have a fraction building mats that kids can use the build the fractions of the bridges. It is a great guide for those that need help making the fraction puzzles. This will help kids need how much of the bridge is left to build.
3 Billy Goat Gruff Book to read With These Puzzles
The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Paul Galdone is a fun telling of the Three Billy Goats Gruff story. It is about crossing the bridge and getting to the green grass on the other side.
Things to use with the Three Billy Goats Gruff Fraction Puzzles with Building Cards Printable
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Ways to Use the Three Billy Goat Bridge Fractions with Bridge Crossing Cards Printable
You will see some suggest on how to use the bridge fraction puzzles and cards. You can use the ones that works best for your kids.
Cut Up Beanstalk Fraction Puzzles
You can start by preparing the fraction puzzles. You can print them on cardstock and laminate them. After you have the puzzles laminated you can cut them out.
You can see one the puzzle but out below.
Build the Bridge Fractions Puzzles
You can have kids just learning fractions build the bridge in order. You can talk about how the puzzle goes up that the fraction it builds goes up as well.
Puzzles are a great visual look at fraction numbers. And it is great for kids who need a hands-on activity for kids.
Cut out the Bridge and Paste on Building Mat
You can print the fraction puzzles and puzzle mat on copy paper. Then you can have kids cut the puzzles out with scissors. After the fraction puzzle is cut out they glue the faction puzzle in order on the puzzle mat. A great fraction center idea.
Compare Fraction Puzzles
You can compare different fractions. You can pick two random puzzle and slowly build the puzzles. You can see the 1/3 is bigger than 1/4 but when you look at the other side of the bridge that the 4 fraction puzzle has more pieces.
The puzzles are easy to use and fun for kids to learn and review fractions.
You can also work on building fractions that are the same. This can be a challenge as not all of the fraction puzzles will work but that is also a good learning tool.
You can see below we have the 1/2 and 1/4 fraction puzzles. You can see the 1/2 and 2/4 are the same. And the bridge on other side is also the same. it is a good visual way to look at fractions.
Build Bridges with the Bridge Crossing Fraction Cards
You can use the bridge crossing cards to build the bridge puzzles. You are going to use a fraction puzzle and the matching building cards. This allows you to build the bridge for each of the cards.
You pull a card and build the bridge in order starting on the left with the lowest fraction number up to the number on the card. In this case we used 4/5 and build the bridge out to 4/5 to match the card.
Billy Goats Cross the Bridge with Bridge Cross Fraction Cards
You can keep the puzzles mats together and have kids use bridge crossing cards to show how far the Billy goat went across the bridge.
You can see we have the 6 fraction puzzle below. And the Billy Goat went 2/6 across the bridge. And the Billy Goat is placed that far across the bridge.
You can do this activity with every puzzle puzzle in the set.
What you will find in the Free Three Billy Goats Gruff Fraction Bridge Puzzles & Building Card Printables
- Bridge fraction puzzles
- 7 pages of fraction puzzles
- Fractions for numbers: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10
- One puzzle per page, and fills the page
- Page to build the fractions
- 3 Billy Goats pictures to use with cards
- Fraction building cards with a fraction work and to build or place the Billy Goats on the bridge.
- 11 pages
More Three Billy Goats Gruff Printables
Free 3 Billy Goats Gruff Pack has 70 pages of printables to use that have elements from the story with puzzles, clip cards and more. You can read the story and use parts from the pack to help retell the story.
Three Billy Goats Gruff Sequencing Printable has the story in four parts with easy reader book, clip cards, writing and cut and paste. A simple way to retell the story of the 3 Billy Goats Gruff.
More Fraction Printables For Kids
Fraction Bookmarks has a visual look at the different fractions for kids to use. They have several different fractions on each bookmark.
Fraction Help Mats is one of my favorite learning tools! It has a fractions area to make and a fraction number line to help with making and learning about fractions.
Tree Fraction Puzzles has puzzles that kids can use to build the numbers with 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 for the puzzles.
Beanstalk Fractions with Building Cards Printable has fractions for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10. You build the beanstalk and the fractions go up the beanstalk. You can also use building cards to work on how much of the beanstalk to build or how high Jack has climbed on the beanstalk.
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