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🧮 5th Grade · Math5.NF.B.4aUnit 6: Multiplying fractions

Fraction times fraction

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🎯 Objective: Students multiply fractions using area models.

Lesson outline

  1. Model 2/3 × 3/4 by shading on an area model.
  2. Discover a/b × c/d = ac/bd.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: 3/5 × 2/3.

Lesson 3 of 6 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.4a

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Multiply fractions by whole numbers and fractions
  • Interpret multiplication as scaling

✅ 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”.

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More lessons in “Multiplying fractions”

  1. Fractions as division
  2. Fraction of a whole number
  3. Fraction times fraction
  4. Area with fractional sides
  5. Multiplication as scaling
  6. Mixed number multiplication

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