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🧮 6th Grade · Math6.NS.A.1Unit 4: Dividing fractions

Fraction division problems

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🎯 Objective: Students solve real-world fraction division problems.

Lesson outline

  1. Ribbon and recipe problems.
  2. Solve.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: one problem.

Lesson 4 of 4 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

6.NS.A.1

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 6 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Divide fractions by fractions with models and equations
  • Solve word problems with fraction division

✅ 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: Dividing fractions📚 All 6th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Dividing fractions”

  1. What does division mean?
  2. Common denominators
  3. Multiply by the reciprocal
  4. Fraction division problems

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