Support your students as they develop their understanding of fractions with our fun and fast-paced Vegetable Ninja: Unit Fractions Match Game! This low-prep card game brings a slice of adventure to your maths block as students practise identifying and creating unit fractions in a hands-on, real-world context. By chopping vegetables into equal parts, students will reinforce their understanding of halves, thirds, quarters, fifths and tenths – all while engaging in meaningful mathematical discussion and playful competition.

Designed for small groups of 2–4 players, this game challenges students to match vegetable images with the correct unit fractions and explain how they would slice the vegetable into equal parts. Using toy utensils, laminated cards or even their fingers, students demonstrate how they’d divide the food and record their successful ‘chops’ on the included recording sheet. The first player to collect six correct matches wins the game – but every player walks away with stronger fraction knowledge!

Vegetable Ninja: Unit Fractions Match Game includes everything you need for easy prep and repeated use. Along with student-friendly instructions and recording sheets, you’ll find vegetable cards, unit fraction cards, editable templates for differentiation, and optional katana cards for added excitement. Whether used in rotations, small group intervention, or as a fast finisher game, this resource helps students connect visual, verbal and kinaesthetic learning through playful practise.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Recognise and apply unit fractions in real-world contexts
• ✅ Demonstrate understanding of equal parts and fractional representations
• ✅ Match visual representations of fractions to mathematical notation
• ✅ Develop vocabulary and reasoning when explaining fraction models
• ✅ Collaborate and communicate in a game-based, social setting

What’s Included:

• Vegetable cards (with editable templates)
• Unit fraction cards (halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, tenths)
• Optional katana cards for interactive ‘slicing’
• Recording sheets for student accountability and reflection
• Detailed teacher instructions and student game directions

Materials Needed:

• Printed cards (on paper or card for durability)
• Scissors, toy knives, dry-erase markers or fingers for slicing demonstration
• Pencils or markers for recording sheets

How to Play:

1. Students flip a vegetable card and choose a matching unit fraction card from their hand.
2. They demonstrate how the vegetable would be sliced into equal parts to match the fraction.
3. If the group agrees the slice is correct, the student keeps the pair and draws it on the recording sheet.
4. The first player to collect six correct matches wins!

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use during maths rotations to reinforce unit fractions in a collaborative format.
• 💡 Include in small group instruction to support visual and verbal fraction modelling.
• 💡 Create differentiated card sets using the editable templates for specific student needs.
• 💡 Use as a formative assessment tool by reviewing students’ recorded drawings and reasoning.
• 💡 Add the optional ‘katana cards’ for an extra layer of engagement and fun.

Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Laminate the cards for repeated use and use dry-erase markers to draw slice lines.
• 💛 Model a few examples before gameplay to reinforce expectations around equal parts.
• 💛 Encourage students to narrate their thinking aloud as they play to reinforce mathematical language.
• 💛 Extend confident learners by adding multiple fraction representations to the editable cards (e.g. 3/5).

Vegetable Ninja: Unit Fractions Match Game turns fraction practise into a fun, active learning experience where students slice, match, and explain their way to mastery – all while enjoying a bit of ninja-themed fun!