need help with tiler mechanic ideas

nobackswing

Hey math teacher here, been spending summer designing some math games for iOS and I'm having trouble getting this one rolling. I'm looking for a game mechanic that's fun and also teaches students about fractions, decimals, and percentages and the fact that they are all different representations of the same value.

I was curious if you all had any ideas? If so, I'd love to hear them. I posted a video here with what I have so far.

Also, if anyone has questions about games and math education, please consider me a resource and feel free to post here or PM me with any questions.

Two.E

My idea would be to have levels and make it like candy crush.

Have it so a player has to collect/merge a certain amount of fractions.

For example.
To pass level1. They need to create 5 lots of 100% and 5 lots of 50%. Once a tile reaches this tile on the board, it is removed.

This gives you an option to create all sorts of levels. You can have a level that requires 20 lots of 60%. Or 1 of every fraction.

It also provides a very straight forward end goal, so students are not too confused on what they need to do.

Best,
Two.E