Make your own number line or circle fractions with Fraction Maker. Demonstrate with pictures how to identify, rename, add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions. Pictures made by Fraction Maker can be copied into Clipboard, allowing you to paste into Windows™ programs that accept graphics from Clipboard. Pictures can also be saved as a bitmap to your hard drive using the <Save Image> button. Make a Powerpoint™ presentation, or paste into a Word™ document. You make the picture of the operations on fractions. Download a worksheet made with Fraction Maker and Word™ that allows students to shade in fractions. Click here to download a sample worksheet. Dowload a PowerPoint™ presentation that uses number lines to show how to compare numbers with a commom denominator. Use the right or left arrow keys to page through the 16 slides. Click here for compare.ppt. How about a study of multiplication? Click here to see Multiply.ppt. Click here to see a FLASH movie that shows how to add fractions. This picture shows the Fraction Maker menu choice Compare/Compare With Circles:

The user selected 3/4 and 2/3 for fractions to compare. The dotted rectangle shows the portion of the page that will be copied to Clipboard.

By pressing the <Copy Image> button the image below was copied to the Clipboard. It was pasted into Macromedia's Fireworks™ for this web page. The image could have been pasted onto a Microsoft Word™ document, Microsoft PowerPoint™, or Paint™. Many graphics programs accept a pasted image from Clipboard, allowing you to crop, add text, or change image size. You could also use Fraction Maker for a live presentation. "I like to show it on my projector and go through it as a class. I also use a mobile presenter.  I can carry it around the room and allow any students to click to the next step and write an answer". Diana Canterbury - Grade 5

This is the copied image from Clipboard:

With the <Colors Off> button pressed you will get this image:

With the colors off, you could ask the students to color in the fractions.

With the <Title Off> and <Explain Off> buttons pressed you will get this image:

Several images such as this would make a nice worksheet.

Fraction Maker is campatible with Windows™ 95, 2000 and XP. The program requires 5.37 MB (5,640,192 bytes) of hard drive space.  It is best viewed with a screen resolution of 800 by 600 pixels or higher.

Seven sample PowerPoint™ Files and 51 sample Word™ worksheets are included.

Fraction Maker is available by electronic download for by using the Download Fraction Maker Choice. File size is 5.4 Megabytes.

If you prefer a CD and wish to pay by credit card, use the Order Fraction Maker CD choice.

If you wish to pay by check and order the Fraction Modeler CD through the mail, use the third choice, Order CD by Mail.

Fraction Maker is available for all computers in a single school location for $15.

Download Fraction Maker Order Fraction Maker CD Order CD by Mail printable order form

Note: If you select the download option, it is recommended that you save the downloaded maker.exe file and then restart your computer before installing.