This resource provides opportunities for learners to explore situations that involve multiplying a mixed number by a fraction. This is remixable by adding in further supports for the range of learners in your class.
This resource includes games aligned to Grade 5 Standards.
Purpose: Engages students and introduces the element of a lemonade stand needed for building a lemonade stand and creating a business.
Case Overview
In “Lemonade Stand Fundraiser”, students will take the role of lemonade stand designer and business owner responding to a request to raise money for an overnight field trip. They will learn about adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals, adding and subtracting fractions, and finding the area of a rectangle with fractional lengths as they create their lemonade stand, advertise and start their fundraising business.
***NOTE
This PBL was created before NC adopted it's NC standards. NF.2 and NF.6 are no longer Grade 5 standards but incorporated into other NF standards.
A resource to support Grade 5 Number Talks.
This task requires students to think about and compare fractions.
In this lesson, students explore how a bank pays interest to people who deposit money into it and charges interest to people who borrow money from it.
Students will explore the concept of multiplication of fractions as a means to find a fractional portion of a fraction (of a whole). They will then apply their understanding of multiplication of fractions to solve a problem in the context of a lemonade business. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.
This resource includes math websites to be used at home.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about mixed problems in fractions.
In this lesson, students use various models to represent multiplication and division of fractions.
This task helps students develop their understanding of the relationship between factors and products. By examining the students' reasoning in the scenario, students will employ relational thinking to better understand what it means to multiply fractions.
Students are introduced to multiplication of a fraction by a whole number as repeated addition of the fraction.
In this lesson, students compare the size of the product to the size of the factors. The lesson begins on page 17 of the PDF.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about multiplying two mixed numbers.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about fractions of whole numbers - word problems.
Students multiply a whole number by a fraction or a mixed number and represent the problem using a model.
This lesson is for grades 4-5 on math. At Home Learning Lessons are a partnership between the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, PBS North Carolina, and the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. Each lesson contains a video instructional lesson, a PDF lesson plan with a transcript, and a PDF file of extension activities.
This workbook was created through the efforts of three instructors at Scottsdale Community College in Scottsdale, Arizona. Any individual may download and utilize a digital copy of this workbook for free.
This lesson is for grades 4-5 on math. At Home Learning Lessons are a partnership between the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, PBS North Carolina, and the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. Each lesson contains a video instructional lesson, a PDF lesson plan with a transcript, and a PDF file of extension activities.
This Menu is designed to review mutliplying fractions with 5th grade students. Students will have choice in how they review this skill!