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

Whole number ÷ unit fraction

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🎯 Objective: Students divide a whole number by a unit fraction (4 ÷ 1/5).

Lesson outline

  1. How many 1/4-cup scoops in 3 cups? 12.
  2. Model with a number line.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: 6 ÷ 1/3.

Lesson 2 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.7b

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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