Fraction Operations

You’ve got 60 spaces on a grid to create an amusement park, a house, a farm, or whatever you’d like. Divide it into seven pieces, order it by size, combine into two halves, and more in this fraction project.

You only have six digits to form three fractions. Can you combine them to get to 0?

What does it look like to multiply fractions?

Have you ever wondered what it looks like to divide by a fraction, man?

What if we took a fraction apart, then took those pieces apart, then recombined them, and then recombined those, arriving back to the original fraction?

Can your students figure out how to add fractions by looking for a pattern?

What if you set the stage for students to discover how to multiply fractions?