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Grade 5

• Geometry

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

• Measurement & Data

  • KY.5.MD.1
  • KY.5.MD.2
  • KY.5.MD.3
  • KY.5.MD.4
  • KY.5.MD.5
  • KY.5.MD.5.b

• Number & Operations: Base Ten

  • KY.5.NBT.1
  • KY.5.NBT.2
  • KY.5.NBT.3.b
  • KY.5.NBT.4
  • KY.5.NBT.5
  • KY.5.NBT.6
  • KY.5.NBT.6.a
  • KY.5.NBT.6.b
  • KY.5.NBT.7

• Number & Operations: Fractions

  • KY.5.NF.1
  • KY.5.NF.2
  • KY.5.NF.3
  • KY.5.NF.4
  • KY.5.NF.4.a
  • KY.5.NF.4.b
  • KY.5.NF.5
  • KY.5.NF.7

• Operations & Algebraic Thinking

  • KY.5.OA.1
  • KY.5.OA.2
  • KY.5.OA.3

KAS Math Standard: KY.5.NF.7

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?