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Grade 5

Geometry
Measurement & Data
Numbers & Operations: Base Ten
Numbers & Operations: Fractions
Operations & Algebraic Thinking
Writing
- 5.W.2

CCSS Math Standard: 5.NF.5.b

$Numerator or Denominator: Which has more power in a fraction?$

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.