Organization and Contact
Organization Type
Nonprofit
Contact Email
frg@vanderbilt.edu
Program Overview
Program Description
Fraction Face-Off! (FFO!) is a small-group systematic, structured tutoring program designed to promote knowledge of fractions to 4th grade students. FFO! emphasizes the three domains listed below:
- Understanding fraction magnitude, including comparing, ordering, and placing fractions on number lines, and fraction equivalencies;
- Fraction calculations, including an understanding of the operations and executing the operations;
- Fraction word problems to contextualize fractions as numbers in everyday contexts and strengthen fraction magnitude understanding.
Type of service
Academic Intervention
Students and Offerings
Grade Levels
4th Grade
Subject Offered
Math
Languages of Instruction
English
Delivery Model and Staffing
Delivery Mode
Blended (for the same student, in-person and virtual sessions)
Setting
During School
Tutor-Student Ratio
1:1, 2:1, 3:1, 4:1
Number of Weeks Per Program
Varies
Number of Sessions Per Week
3
Number of Minutes Per Session
35
Type of Tutor
Teaching Assistant
Customer and Cost
Customer Type
District
Student
Research Evidence
Randomized controlled trial (RCT) study conducted?
Yes
RCT Citation
Malone, A.S., Fuchs, L.S., Sterba, S.K., Fuchs, D., & Foreman-Murray, L. (2019). Does an integrated focus on fractions and decimals improve at-risk students’ rational number magnitude performance? Contemporary Educational Psychology.
RCT effect size
0.59