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Grade 5

• Geometry

  • 5.G.1
  • 5.G.2
  • 5.G.3
  • 5.G.4

• Measurement & Data

  • 5.MD.1
  • 5.MD.2
  • 5.MD.3
  • 5.MD.4
  • 5.MD.5.a
  • 5.MD.5.b
  • 5.MD.5.c

• Numbers & Operations: Base Ten

  • 5.NBT.1
  • 5.NBT.2
  • 5.NBT.4
  • 5.NBT.5
  • 5.NBT.6
  • 5.NBT.7

• Numbers & Operations: Fractions

  • 5.NF.1
  • 5.NF.2
  • 5.NF.3
  • 5.NF.4.a
  • 5.NF.4.b
  • 5.NF.4
  • 5.NF.5.a
  • 5.NF.5.b
  • 5.NF.6
  • 5.NF.7
  • 5.NF.7.a
  • 5.NF.7.b
  • 5.NF.7.c

• Operations & Algebraic Thinking

  • 5.OA.1
  • 5.OA.2
  • 5.OA.3

CCSS Math Standard: 5.NF.5.b

Explaining why multiplying a given number by a fraction greater than 1 results in a product greater than the given number; explaining why multiplying a given number by a fraction less than 1 results in a product smaller than the given number.

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.