Standard 5.NF.3
5 ÷ 6 = ?
What is 5/6?
Is 2/6 an example of a unit fraction?
What is no?
14 * 7 = X, Predict
A. X > 7
B. X < 7
C. X = 7
What is A?
This number/fraction in the equation 4 ÷ 1/3 = 12 is the divisor.
What is 1/3?
Of the students in a class 3/5 like math. Of the students who like math, 6/10 prefer geometry. What fraction of students like math and prefer geometry?
What is 9/25 of the students.
A turtle crawls 3 yards in an hour. It crawls this far in 2 hours.
What is 1 1/2 yard?
2/3 * 30 = ?
What is 20?
A rectangle has length 3 1/4 feet and width 1 1/3 feet. Is the area of the rectangle greater or less than 3 1/4 square feet?
What is Area > 3 1/4 ft2?
Emily has 2 tons of sand. She will move it by wheelbarrow to the garden. Her wheelbarrow holds 1/10 ton. How many trips will she make?
What is 20 trips?
Express 1/3 * 4 as a sum of unit fractions.
What is 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3?
How can you divide 7 waffles equally among 100 people?
What is 7/100 waffles per person?
Roberto has a recipe that calls for 4 cups of flour. He wants to use only 1/2 of the recipe today. How much flour will he need?
What is 2 cups of flour?
6/6 * 3/4 = X, Predict
A. X > 3/4
B. X < 3/4
C. X = 3/4
What is X = 3/4
An apple orchard covers 12 acres. There is a watering spout for every 6/7 acres. Are there more or fewer than 12 watering spouts? Explain your reasoning.
What is more than 12? Answers may vary. A good answer could be that you need to divide 12 by 6/7. which sets up as 12 ÷ 6/7 or 12 * 7/6 = 14 watering spouts.
It rained on 2/5 of all the days last month. On 1/6 of these rainy days, there were thunderstorms. This fraction of rainy days last month also had thunderstorms.
What is 1/15 days?
BONUS: You must divide 39 waffles equally among 5 serving plates. Draw a model to represent this situation.
Answers may vary. The model should show 5 different plates containing 7 4/5 waffles.
A picnic jug holds 1 gallon of lemonade. Each paper cup holds 1/12 gallon. How many paper cups can be filled?
What is 12 cups?
It's 9 4/5 miles from Justin's house to the art museum. The distance to the history museum is 9/10 this far. Is the history museum more or less than 9 4/5 miles from Justin's house?
What is the history museum is less than 9 4/5 miles from Justin's house?
Yoshi has a rope 30 feet long. He must cut it into pieces that are each 1/4 foot long. Decide and tell which operation to use, solve the question, and explain your reasoning.
What is division, 120 pieces? 4 pieces of rope = 1 foot; if I set up the equation as 30 ÷ 1/4 I will get 120 pieces
The whiteboard in this classroom has a length of 1 3/8 ft. and a width of 5 2/9 ft. What is the area of the whiteboard?
What is 7 13/72 ft2.
Complete the equation. W and D are whole numbers and D is not 0. w ÷ 1/d = ?
Answers may vary. What is W = 6 and D =6, 6 ÷ 1/6 = 36?
Express the product of 1 2/5 * 1 1/2 as a fraction and as a mixed number.
What is 21/10 and 2 1/10?
Timer Race: A rectangle A has length 4 1/2 cm. and a width 6 1/2 cm. The length and width of rectangle B are 5 1/2 times greater than rectangle A. Find the area of rectangle B.
What is 884 13/16 cm2?
Mr. Bread must create a Jeopardy game with 25 squares. He completes 1/3 of a square every day. Think of as many ways as possible to solve this word problem (set up equations, draw models, plug the answer back in, etc.)
Answers may vary but students may say: 25 ÷ 1/3, 25 * 3. They may draw a model that shows a square split into thirds and say that 3 days = 1 square * 25 squares.
3/4 * 8 = X. Write a word problem that can be represented by the multiplication equation.
What is answers may vary. A correct answer could be Student A has 8 bananas, of those bananas 3/4 are going rotten. How many of the bananas are going rotten?