In this lesson, students explore situations that involve dividing a unit fraction by a whole number and a whole number by a unit fraction.  

In this lesson students explore models to divide a fraction by a whole number. 

In this task students explore dividing a unit fraction by a whole number. 

Students will activate their prior knowledge of Haiti from Feed the Hunger PBL and answer a few questions about Haiti statistics and value of money. They will also relate fractions to the statistics and money amounts. This lesson was developed by Erin Plummer as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

In this lesson, students will learning about monetary amounts (a quarter) and what a quarter could buy you here in the United States as well as in Haiti. Students will also be exploring fractions by comparing the same monetary amount to a fraction of a dollar and also write out a dollar amount using fractions in simpliest form. This lesson was developed by Marissa Piersanti as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

This hands-on activity explores five different forms of erosion (chemical, water, wind, glacier and temperature). Students rotate through stations and model each type of erosion on rocks, soils and minerals. The students record their observations and discuss the effects of erosion on the Earth's landscape. Students learn about how engineers are involved in the protection of landscapes and structures from erosion. Math problems are included to help students think about the effects of erosion in real-world scenarios.

This task corresponds with the "How Many Servings of Oatmeal?" activity. Both of these tasks examine 4 divided by 1/3, but in different contexts. Students will have to show flexibility with their thinking to relate this task to the oatmeal task. Productive mathematics conversations comparing and contrasting the solution paths for these tasks will engage students in the mathematical practice standards too.

This task provides a context for performing division of a whole number by a unit fraction. This problem is a "How many groups?'' example of division.

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 grade 5 unit of number and operations lessons explores dividing fractions and whole numbers through 8 hands-on activities and 3 worksheets.

This task helps develop students' understanding of dividing a whole number by a fraction. The concrete situation presented in the task will help students see more literally what is happening when carrying out this process, thus fostering conceptual understanding. To help students see connections between the mathematical processes and patterns contrast this task with the "Banana Pudding" task also by Illustrative Mathematics.

The purpose of this task is to present students with a situation in which they need to divide a whole number by a unit fraction in order to find a solution.

For this task, students are required to divide a unit fraction by a whole number. After ample exploring, analyzing and discussing the strip diagram provided in the solution will help students to understand the structure of this problem. Such discussion will incorporate the mathematical practice standards into the lesson.

The purpose of this task is to provide students with a situation in which it is natural for them to divide a unit fraction by a non-zero whole number.

Students will determine which distributor (of a small company that produces wooden children’s puzzles) they should purchase their materials from. Students will use their understanding of fractions in order to determine the number of given lengths of wood that can be extracted from the sizes of dowel rods and boards that the distributors offer. 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 course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 5th Grade Math. 

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 5th Grade Math. 

Students will apply their understanding of division of whole numbers by unit fractions, in context, to the division of whole numbers by non-unit fractions. Students will consider the steps of the standard algorithm of division of fractions as they relate to solving the contextualized problems in this task. 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.