Fraction Face-Off

Mission:
Program Description: 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
Website Address
https://frg.vkcsites.org/what-are-interventions/math_intervention_manuals/
Subject Offered
Math
Grade Levels
4th Grade
Languages Offered
English
Setting
During School
Delivery Mode
Blended
Tutor-Student Ratio
1:1, 2:1, 3:1, 4:1
Number of Sessions Per Week
3
Number of Minutes Per Session
35
Number of Weeks Per Program
Varies
Organization Type
Nonprofit
Customer Type
District
Student
Type of Tutor
Teaching Assistant
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
Contact Email
frg@vanderbilt.edu