Product Details

• Actors: Rock 'N Learn
• Directors: Richard Caudle
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Rock 'N Learn
• DVD Release Date: June 8, 2004
• Run Time: 35 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002F6B92
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,451 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Cool music, colorful animation, and lots of humor-that's our secret formula for getting kids excited and motivated to learn about fractions and decimals. Kid-appealing songs and rhymes help students of all ages learn new terms and remember the rules about congruent parts, equivalent fractions, proper and improper fractions, mixed numerals, decimals, and more. Approx 35 Minutes.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars How to deal with improper fractions (without embarrassment), April 18, 2008

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Amanda Richards (Georgetown, Guyana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rock 'N Learn: Fractions & Decimals (DVD)

Having practiced multiplication tables with the Rock and Rap DVDs in this series, next in line was fractions, and this DVD explains the basics in an easy to understand format using cartoons, visual aids and music.

The three cartoon characters explain the concepts of numerators and denominators using candy bars, pizza and gummy bears, and sing a song about congruent parts, which I learned are parts of the whole that are the same shape and size.

The DVD also covers equivalent fractions, proper and improper fractions and mixed numerals before shifting over to decimals. In the decimal section, it covers tenths, hundredths and thousandths, converting fractions to decimals, and adding and subtracting with common denominators. It also touches on handling really long conversions like 1/3.

This one is more informative than the multiplication DVDs, and rather than just recitation, there are things to be learned here. The key points are repeated and reinforced, and there is also a section where students can give the answer before the DVD does.

Again, this DVD works best as a back-up learning tool to supplement what the child is doing in school, and the only thing that could be improved is the animation. Rated: 4.5 stars


Amanda Richards, April 18, 2008

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Introduction and Review, February 23, 2008

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Kitty Brewer "Former Teacher" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rock 'N Learn: Fractions & Decimals (DVD)

This is great as an introduction to learning and understanding fractions. It uses items that children can relate to (pizza, candy, etc.)and that they would use in every day life so that they can see the relevance of fractions The music is upbeat and the graphics are excellent. It gives explanations, examples, and graphics for every concept about fractions. It also has questions after each concept to test their understanding of what has been shown. This is also good for a general review of fractions. Every math teacher should have this DVD in their colection.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My 7 years old learn Fraction from it, December 28, 2010

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JC - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rock 'N Learn: Fractions & Decimals (DVD)

I think this is a nice visual presentation about Fraction and Decimals. Before having this video, my child could not do the addition/subtraction of fraction though I tried my best to draw pizza/pie to explain. This video was amazing in getting his attention. The fraction and decimals were introduced in easy and fun. After watching the video once, he could correct all the errors in his homework all by himself. His confidence with math is back! Thanks to this nice DVD.