Make your own number line or circle fractions with Fraction Maker. Demonstrate with pictures how to identify, compare, 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. Click here to see 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 to download a sample worksheet made with Fraction Maker and Word™ that allows students to shade in fractions. Click here to see a FLASH movie that shows how to add fractions. All the circles and number lines described on the Visual Fractions Worksheets page were made with Fraction Maker. This screenshot 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, XP and VISTA. The program requires 4.7 MB of hard drive space.  It is best viewed with a screen resolution of 800 by 600 pixels or higher.

Seven sample Adobe Readert™ slide show files and 80 sample Adobe Reader™ worksheets are included. These files are described on the FRACTION WORKSHEETS page.

Fraction Maker is available for all computers in a single school or home location for $15. Fraction Maker installation agreement allows installation on all computers in a single home or school location.

Fraction Maker is available by electronic download thru DIGIBUY by using the Download Fraction Maker Choice. File size is 4.7 Megabytes. If you select the download option, it is recommended that you save the downloaded makersetup.exe file and then restart your computer before installing.

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

If you wish to pay by check and order the FRACTION MAKER 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. Maker comes with 80 pre-made worksheets as described on the FRACTION WORKSHEETS page

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

Note: You must have a Windows computer If you select the download option. It is recommended that you first save the downloaded makersetup.exe file before installation.