Grade 5
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Data Analysis
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Geometry
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Measurement
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Number & Operations: Base Ten
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Number & Operations: Fractions
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Operations & Algebraic Thinking
Alabama Math Standard: 5.NF.B.15
Apply and extend previous understandings of division to divide unit fractions by whole numbers and whole numbers by unit fractions.
Numerator or Denominator: Which has more power in a fraction?
What do you do with students who already get their fraction operations? Give them a contrived project about recipes or pizza slices? Make them solve annoyingly hard practice problems? Please. Here, we get students thinking in a whole new way, pondering which has more power, the numerator or denominator.
A Visual Guide To Dividing By Fractions
Have you ever wondered what it looks like to divide by a fraction, man?