This task asks students to use two different denominators to subtract fractions. The purpose of this is to help students realize that any common denominator will work, not just the least common denominator.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about finding the least common denominator.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about finding the reciprocal of fractions.
The CyberSquad has to find a crystal that is between 65% and 85% orange to power up their escape from Hacker in this video from Cyberchase.
The purpose of this task is to provide students with a concrete experience they can relate to fraction multiplication. Perhaps more importantly, the task also purposefully relates length and locations of points on a number line, a common trouble spot for students. This task is meant for instruction and would be a useful as part of an introductory unit on fraction multiplication.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about the conversion of fractions to decimals.
Students recognize what it means to fold a paper in half, but do they recognize how to create fourths or thirds?
Download and print these worksheets to sharpen your skills working with fractions. Worksheets focus on modeling fractions, ratios and proportions, comparing, ordering, simplifying, converting, and order of operations.
Creating a conceptual understanding of how to find the volume of rectangular prisms using fractional side lengths.
Video tutorial explores how to graph and locate fractions on a number line. [4:15]
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This task requires students to place fractions onto a number line.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about fractions with common denominators - word problems.
This task requires students to think about and compare fractions.
Compare fractions (halves, quarters, eighths) that make up a whole by drawing toppings on pizzas and cutting the pizzas into slices!
Visit Gabby's pizza shop to help Adi take pizza orders from customers. Viewers learn fractions that make up a whole by drawing pizza toppings in halves and quarters and cutting the pizzas into one eighth slices.
Learning Objective:
To partition objects into equal parts and name the parts, including halves, fourths, and eighths, using words.
In Module 8, the final module of the year, students extend their understanding of partwhole relationships through the lens of geometry. As students compose and decompose shapes, they begin to develop an understanding of unit fractions as equal parts of a whole.
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This 20-day module gives students their first opportunity to explore decimal numbers via their relationship to decimal fractions, expressing a given quantity in both fraction and decimal forms. Utilizing the understanding of fractions developed throughout Module 5, students apply the same reasoning to decimal numbers, building a solid foundation for Grade 5 work with decimal operations.
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In Module 3, students' understanding of addition and subtraction of fractions extends from earlier work with fraction equivalence and decimals. This module marks a significant shift away from the elementary grades' centrality of base ten units to the study and use of the full set of fractional units from Grade 5 forward, especially as applied to algebra.
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Grade 5s Module 4 extends student understanding of fraction operations to multiplication and division of both fractions and decimal fractions. Work proceeds from interpretation of line plots which include fractional measurements to interpreting fractions as division and reasoning about finding fractions of sets through fraction by whole number multiplication. The module proceeds to fraction by fraction multiplication in both fraction and decimal forms. An understanding of multiplication as scaling and multiplication by n/n as multiplication by 1 allows students to reason about products and convert fractions to decimals and vice versa. Students are introduced to the work of division with fractions and decimal fractions. Division cases are limited to division of whole numbers by unit fractions and unit fractions by whole numbers. Decimal fraction divisors are introduced and equivalent fraction and place value thinking allow student to reason about the size of quotients, calculate quotients and sensibly place decimals in quotients. Throughout the module students are asked to reason about these important concepts by interpreting numerical expressions which include fraction and decimal operations and by persevering in solving real-world, multistep problems which include all fraction operations supported by the use of tape diagrams.
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This task requires students to think about and compare fractions.
This task involves fraction multiplication that can be solved with pictures or number lines.