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🧮 5th Grade · Math5.NF.B.7cUnit 7: Dividing with unit fractions

Fraction division problems

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🎯 Objective: Students solve word problems involving division of unit fractions.

Lesson outline

  1. Read and model two problems (sharing and measuring).
  2. Solve and explain.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: one problem.

Lesson 3 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

5.NF.B.7c

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 5 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Divide unit fractions by whole numbers and whole numbers by unit fractions

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Fractions: add, subtract, multiply📚 All 5th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Dividing with unit fractions”

  1. Unit fraction ÷ whole number
  2. Whole number ÷ unit fraction
  3. Fraction division problems

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