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Grade 5

TEKS Math Standard: 5.3.H

represent and solve addition and subtraction of fractions with unequal denominators referring to the same whole using objects and pictorial models and properties of operations

What’s the Pattern? Fraction Addition

What’s the Pattern? Fraction Addition

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

How Many Ways: Fraction Subtraction 234

How Many Ways: Fraction Subtraction 234

How many different ways can you make this fraction subtraction statement true using only the digits one through nine?

How Many Ways: Fraction Addition 234

How Many Ways: Fraction Addition 234

How many different ways can you make this fraction addition statement true using only the digits one through nine?

How Many Ways: Fraction Subtraction Equals 1/2

How Many Ways: Fraction Subtraction Equals 1/2

How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits zero through nine?

Fractions: Decompose and Recompose

Fractions: Decompose and Recompose

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?

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.

A Grid-Based Fraction Project

A Grid-Based Fraction Project

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.