In this investigation, learners determine the amount of each ingredient needed to make brownies, and then they figure out how to divide the brownies evenly among the group. This lesson helps learners reinforce their measurement skills in a practical situation.
This task requries students to think about division by fractons.
In this task using a number line, students must partition the interval between 0 and 1 into eighths.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about comparing decimals and fractions using inequalities.
The purpose of this task is for students to compare fractions using common numerators and common denominators and to recognize equivalent fractions.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about comparing fractions using lcm - word problems.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about comparing fractions using a fraction bar illustration.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about comparing fractions of whole numbers by filling in inequalities.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about comparing fractions with common denominators or common numerators.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about comparing fractions with different denominators.
This task is meant to address a common error that students make, namely, that they represent fractions with different wholes when they need to compare them. This task is meant to generate classroom discussion related to comparing fractions. Particularly important is that students understand that when you compare fractions, you implicitly always have the same whole.
The purpose of this task is to help develop students' understanding of addition of fractions; it is intended as an instructional task.
The focus of this task is on understanding that fractions, in an explicit context, are fractions of a specific whole. In this problem there are three different wholes: the medium pizza, the large pizza, and the two pizzas taken together.
The purpose of this task is for students to compare a number and its product with other numbers that are greater than and less than one.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about completing the whole - add togethe.
This familiar game can be played by one or two players taking turns. Players choose to match equivalent representations of numbers, shapes, fractions, or multiplication facts. The game can be played in clear pane mode, or for added challenge, with the windows closed.
The purpose of this task is to have students think about the meaning of multiplying a number by a fraction, and to use this understanding of fraction multiplication to make sense of the commutative property of multiplication in the case of fractions.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about the conversion of decimals to fractions.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about the conversion of fractions to decimals.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about the conversion of mixed numbers into decimals.