Equivalent fraction mazes where the wrong turns are real mistakes
Pick a fraction and step only on squares equal to it — 2/4, 3/6, 5/10 for one half. The squares beside the route are what a child who half-understands fractions walks onto: 2/3 because one was added to the top and the bottom, 3/7 one off, 7/15 very nearly a half.
Same value, different numbers.
An equivalent fractions maze generator, printable as a PDF. Choose the fraction — a half, a third, a quarter, two thirds or three quarters — and how far the denominators go, and generate. Exactly one path of equal fractions runs from the arrow to the star; short dead-end branches of equal fractions lead off it. The fractions are written stacked, the way a child meets them in class.
1 token a sheet, fewer in batches.
US Letter PDF — prints on any home printer.
Start
At the arrow, with the fraction from the title in mind.
Step
Only onto squares whose fraction equals it. Never diagonally.
Finish
Some equal fractions dead-end. Only one path reaches the star.
Equal to
Fractions
The wrong squares are the mistakes children make: adding the same to top and bottom, one off, and — at the hardest — fractions very close in size.
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