Gr 5 C5 Task Baking Cookies
This task allows students to explore a situation involving the estimation, addition, and subtraction of fractions with unlike denominators. This is remixable by adding student work or you can upload a new resource also aligned to this standard.
Task:
Joe and Grace are baking
cookies. They need a total of 2 cups of sugar for the recipe.
Joe has 9/8 cups of sugar and Grace has 3/4 of a cup of sugar.
Without solving the problem, do they have enough sugar? Explain your thinking.
Solve the problem using a
model to justify your reasoning.