Frankie's Pizza Stand

Frankie's Pizza Stand is an activity appearing in JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade: Fundamentals. It takes place at Frankie's house and is designed to teach fractions at a first grade level.

Characters

 * Frankie
 * Squirt

Premise
In this activity, Frankie owns a pizza business that he operates in his backyard. Squirt helps him by taking him orders.

Description
Squirt brings Frankie pizza orders that specify that certain fractional sections of the pizza should contain certain toppings. In addition to being said by Squirt, the orders will also appear on a piece of paper. In later levels, the player must determine what fractional sections on the pizza are needed in order to accomplish this. Pizzas may come in three different shapes: triangles, squares, and circles. Squares may be divided into halves or quarters, triangles are always divided into thirds, and circles may be divided into halves, quarters, or thirds. Once the pizza is properly marked (which is done automatically on earlier levels), a conveyor belt will then begin to take the pizza to the oven, and before it goes in, the user must place the pizza toppings on the pizza in such a way as to fulfill the order. If this is done correctly, Squirt will take the pizza and immediately come back with another order. If this is done incorrectly, Frankie will devour the entire pizza himself, and then either burp loudly or look sick. Once four pizzas are made correctly, the player is awarded a Smoky Bone powerup. The user's progress is tracked by the means of biscuits on a pan on the table - one biscuit for each success.

Skill (academic) Level

 * Level one: All pizzas are circular and all fractions are either fourths or halves.
 * Level two: Circle and square pizzas are available. Starting on this level, the user is required to divide the pizza into fractional segments with sauce before adding toppings, rather than it being done automatically.
 * Level three: Square, circular, and triangular pizzas are all available. Circular pizzas and triangular pizzas may both be divided into thirds.

Game Play Level

 * Level one: The conveyor belt moves slowly and four toppings may be used.
 * Level two: The conveyor belt moves more quickly and six toppings may be used.
 * Level three: The conveyor belt moves even more quickly and eight toppings may be used.

Trivia

 * Most of the toppings in the game are things humans might consume, but one of the toppings that is sometimes available is dog biscuits, which Frankie has often been depicted as being fond of.
 * A screenshot of the game can be found on the first inner flap of the JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade 3-disc set box, but Frankie's expression is somewhat different and the colors are more saturated. Also, a different cursor from the one in the final product is shown.